Software Engineer 2

Requirements

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, including backend development with a compiled language such as Java or C#
• Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and experience implementing APIs and services in a microservice environment
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work cross-functionally with Product, Analytics, and other Engineering teams
• Passion for continuous learning and writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code

Nice to Haves

• Experience with experimentation frameworks and A/B testing at scale
• Familiarity with tools like Segment, Amplitude, or other analytics platforms
• Experience operating services in Kubernetes
• Prior work integrating with partner ecosystems or building external-facing public APIs for third parties
• Contributions to shared infrastructure that enables internal teams to move faster or make better decisions

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and maintain scalable backend services that power feature flagging, experimentation, and analytics infrastructure for MongoDB Atlas
• Develop and evolve APIs that support experimentation, personalization, and third-party partner integrations
• Contribute to components that enable internal teams to easily run experiments and analyze their impact
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance across our systems, especially in the context of experimentation and service configuration at scale
• Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews
• Uphold engineering best practices and help drive a culture of quality, customer focus, and continuous learning
• Participate in the 24/7 team on-call rotation up to once per quarter, responding to critical incidents and ensuring service reliability with support from team playbooks and escalation paths
• Own our core values and leadership principles in all that you do

Perks and Benefits

• Deliver backend features and services that are reliable, maintainable, and meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders
• Successfully implement cross-functional initiatives, aligning with Product, Analytics, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver value
• Begin to provide thoughtful code reviews for peers, helping to raise the bar for engineering quality and collaboration
• Continuously learn and adapt, bringing in new ideas and best practices that keep our team and systems evolving
• Are willing to learn and contribute to all parts of the stack after a ramp-up period as applicable