Lead Engineer, Server Programmability

MongoDB

📍 Quebec, Capitale-Nationale, Canada

Full-time Other-General Posted March 01, 2026

Job Description

Join and lead MongoDB’s Server Programmability team, helping build the core of a distributed database! Server Programmability’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, improving local server development experience and velocity, enhancing the programming model, and building low level reusable software components that can be leveraged by other teams working on the database.

Our team currently consists of six engineers, located both in New York City and fully remote. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the performance and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall. Recently, we’ve built tooling to help support better modularization of the server codebase, migrated server unit testing to a well supported open-source framework, and are currently evaluating the feasibility of introducing coroutines to the Server codebase.

Our team champions a strong culture o...