Staff Engineer

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, direct architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As a Staff Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to teams developing cutting edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications. You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. Position Expectations Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects Qualifications Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java Proven success in designing, writing, testing, de