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Staff Engineer

MongoDB · Sydney

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
77 days
MongoDB's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of MongoDB's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at MongoDB
high
411 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
2026-10-24

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 Staff Engineer on the Storage Layer Services team at MongoDB, you will be involved in re-architecting the MongoDB Cloud Storage Layer, focusing on building performant multi-tenant distributed storage services. Your responsibilities will include writing production-ready code in Rust, defining the roadmap, mentoring junior engineers, and driving improvements across the organization. You will also engage in customer escalations and collaborate with various teams to ensure operational excellence and successful project delivery.

Our read on this posting2.6out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
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

  • 10+ years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent and/or distributed systems
  • Experience in a systems language (C, C++, Rust, etc.)
  • Track record as an effective technical leader
  • Solid grasp of systems fundamentals such as cache management, log-based recovery, transactions, or performance profiling
  • Comfortable reasoning about highly concurrent, asynchronous services
  • Experience working on large, highly available, scalable and performant systems

What you get

  • 5 weeks annual leave
  • 22 weeks paid parental leave for both parents
  • Family forming assistance covering fertility care, adoption, and surrogacy
  • Subsidised health & dental insurance for you and your dependents
  • Classpass credits, a Headspace subscription, and vaccination vouchers
  • In-office lunch up to 3 days per week

Worth weighing

  • Role involves occasional travel to the US (once a year)
  • Position requires a hybrid working model, candidates must be based in Sydney
  • Success measures are defined over a 12-month period, indicating a structured but potentially high-pressure environment

Summarised from MongoDB's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by MongoDB on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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