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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 71 days MongoDB's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of MongoDB's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at MongoDB
- high 404 stale, 7 reposted of 411 open
- Hiring momentum
- 575 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from MongoDB's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for MongoDB.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer in the AI Builder Experience team at MongoDB, you'll focus on building and shaping the core products that facilitate interactions between developers and AI agents. Your responsibilities will include designing and delivering key components of the platform, mentoring fellow engineers, and driving projects from inception to completion with minimal guidance. You'll work closely with various teams to define and evolve AI interfaces, while also participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of MongoDB as an employer.
What you need
- Strong background in building core components for scalable, high-availability web applications and services
- 7+ years of experience building backend systems, primarily in Node.js and TypeScript
- Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, and performance tuning software systems in large, long-lived code bases
- Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects independently with minimal guidance
- A product-minded approach to engineering, with the judgment to make pragmatic tradeoffs and the comfort to operate amid ambiguity and rapidly evolving technologies
- Enjoys collaboration and being part of a team; is approachable, curious, and intellectually honest
Nice to have
- Experience building MCP servers, agent skills, or plugins for agentic applications
- Familiarity with the agentic AI tooling ecosystem (AI IDEs, CLIs, and assistants) and how developers integrate with it
- Working knowledge of Java and/or Python
- Experience with OAuth and authentication infrastructure for developer-facing services
- Experience working with databases and knowledge of database internals
What you get
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Generous parental leave policy
Worth weighing
- Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation is required
- The role involves working with fast-moving, often unproven technologies
- The team is new and may involve ambiguity in processes and expectations
Summarised from MongoDB's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by MongoDB on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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