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Staff Engineer

MongoDB · Gurugram

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 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

The Staff Engineer will provide technical direction and lead the architecture for a new platform aimed at facilitating AI application development using MongoDB. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams, designing and delivering core platform components, mentoring engineers, and enhancing the performance and reliability of distributed systems. The role emphasizes technical leadership and ownership of high-visibility projects within a hybrid working model in Gurugram.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
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 high scale compute and data distributed systems
  • 8+ years experience of building distributed systems and/or foundational cloud services at scale
  • Experience with Python, Go, and Java
  • Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, and performance tuning distributed systems
  • Track record of identifying problems and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
  • Experience leading projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to delivery

Nice to have

  • Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
  • Experience with AI frameworks and tools

What you get

  • Employee affinity groups
  • Fertility assistance
  • Generous parental leave policy
  • Commitment to employee wellbeing and support

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Hybrid working model may not suit everyone
  • High-visibility projects may come with significant pressure

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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