Staff Engineer

Job description

MongoDB's Application Modernization Platform (AMP) helps organizations modernize legacy applications and move their workloads and associated data from relational databases to MongoDB. Our customers need a dependable way to bring analysis, transformation, testing, and migration capabilities into their modernization workflows. The Platform team builds the shared foundations that make AMP a cohesive product. We connect specialized tools and services through consistent interfaces, integrate them with AI agents and development environments, and make them secure, observable, and straightforward to deploy and operate. Our work enables product teams to deliver new capabilities without repeatedly solving the same integration and infrastructure problems. We are looking for a Staff Engineer to set technical direction and lead delivery of this platform. You will combine deep systems engineering with product judgment, turning ambiguous requirements into reusable services and working integrations. You will define clear boundaries between platform, product teams, and external partners; make deliberate build-versus-integrate decisions; and contribute foundational code. Your impact will be measured by how reliably teams and customers can adopt and use AMP capabilities, and how much engineering effort the platform removes from their path. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. A strong candidate for this position will have: Technical Leadership: Over 8 years in software engineering and production operations, with a proven history of championing major technical strategies and deploying resilient, scalable architectures Platform Engineering: Deep practical expertise architecting common frameworks, distributed architectures, or core developer tooling leveraged across multiple organizations or customer environments API & System Design: Track record of establishing and refining service boundaries, interfaces, and data schemas with a sharp focus on backward compatibility, extensibility, and smooth adoption Operational Rigor: Practical expertise maintaining mission-critical services, driving observability, incident recovery, performance tuning, automated test suites, and continuous delivery workflows Security Integration: Demonstrated success constructing safe integrations, implementing strict auth mechanisms while protecting proprietary client code, sensitive data, and authentication tokens Cross-Functional Impact: Ability to spearhead architectural direction across team boundaries, communicate complex tradeoffs, offer constructive guidance, and mentor engineers throughout execution Product Sense: Sharp product judgment that converts developer requirements and user feedback into clear roadmaps, tangible milestones, and clear success criteria Not required but beneficial: AI Agent & LLM Integration: Hands-on experience embedding intelligent agents or language model workflows into enterprise platforms, including defining execution contexts, robust tool interfaces, and mitigating nondeterministic operational behavior Developer Tooling & Distribution: Expertise delivering developer-centric software—such as CLIs, custom SDKs, containerized architectures, or self-hosted components—deployed directly within client-managed infrastructure Domain Expertise: In-depth background in application modernization, relational database systems, MongoDB ecosystems, automated code transformation, and enterprise data migration pipelines Position Expectations Architectural Vision & Strategy: Formulate core service layers and integration frameworks enabling seamless AMP functionality. Define strict service-level boundaries with collaborating engineering orgs, iteratively maturing platform primitives using production workloads Agent & Tooling Integration: Spearhead engineering initiatives to expose platform capabilities via resilient CLI tools and APIs, connecting them cleanly with autonomous agent frameworks while managing tenant isolation, auth state, and operational context Deployment & Lifecycle Engineering: Optimize distribution, automated upgrades, and runtime execution across client enterprise environments. Establish holistic telemetry, structured logging, and actionable diagnostics to streamline incident recovery and troubleshooting Security & Enterprise Quality: Work closely alongside security engineers to safeguard customer intellectual property, ensuring robust exe