Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI

New York City💼 Full-time💰 $151,000–$151,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Provide technical leadership and implement core components for a new platform enabling customers to build AI applications using MongoDB.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Agentic AI / Distributed Systems)

Builds

Distributed systems infrastructure for AI application deployment at scale

Domain

Cloud-native data platforms, AI infrastructure, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed systems architecture, high-scale compute, Python, Go, Java, performance tuning, concurrent software design, technical leadership, project ownership

Preferred skills

containerization, Kubernetes, AI frameworks

Responsibilities

Define service architecture and evolution, design and deliver core platform pieces, conduct code reviews and shape development practices, mentor engineers, lead large-scale infrastructure projects

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.