# Software Engineer 3, Atlas Search Systems

**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $109k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Java, Distributed Systems, Multithreaded Applications, Public Cloud Platforms, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, Backend Development, Scalability
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Builds and maintains scalable backend infrastructure for Atlas Search, MongoDB's multi-cloud search service. Requires 2+ years experience with distributed systems, multithreaded apps, public clouds, and Java.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of projects that improve the scalability of Atlas Search to make using it a seamless experience for even the largest workloads
- Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers
- Have the opportunity to lead projects and own subsystems
- Provide input on the team’s roadmap and help determine the architecture of our system

## Requirements
- 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software and automation in complex codebases
- Experience developing distributed systems and multithreaded applications
- Familiarity with public cloud platforms, distributed infrastructure, and metric-based development
- Experience with at least one modern statically typed programming language, and interest in working with **Java**
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues
- A growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback
- A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production

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