Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

The MongoDB Atlas team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. We are responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering and fastest growing product which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.

We're seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Atlas Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. IAM is a platform and a product team. We serve internal engineers by providing them a secure and durable suite of services, and we serve external customers by providing them user facing features and products. We are the owners of Atlas’ authentication (OAuth, SSO, Federated Identity) and authorization (RBAC, ABAC) systems, along with many others. The IAM team’s mission is to enable customers to securely build their applications with Atlas through our best in class user experience.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City, NY for our hybrid working model.

Role Responsibilities

• Design, architect, build, and deliver core pieces of IAM

• Lead projects from specification to delivery

• Mentor and grow other team members

• Improve our codebase, best practices, and design principles

• Define your top priorities and focuses, communicate them, and execute against them

• Lead and contribute to complex technical projects and initiatives

Candidate Profile

• 5+ years experience of software engineering, primarily focused on backend systems

• Proficient in a modern compiled programming language (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.)

• Willingness to learn JavaScript and/or TypeScript along with modern frontend technologies (React, Redux, etc.); prior experience a plus

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor fellow engineers

• Is curious, collaborative, em

Department: Identity and Access Management