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MONGODB, INC.: Staff Engineer, Search Systems
Observed on the employer’s careers system, last checked 2026-09-05.
- Employer
- MONGODB, INC.
- Location
- San Francisco
- Category
- Atlas Search
- Posted
- 2026-09-02
- Careers system
- greenhouse
- Observed
- 2026-09-05
Role description
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The Search Systems team at MongoDB builds the core infrastructure behind MongoDB Search and Vector Search. Our mission is to make advanced search capabilities feel native to the database, so developers can build powerful, scalable applications without standing up separate systems or compromising transactional performance. We are the team behind mongot, the indexing and query execution engine that powers Search and Vector Search across MongoDB Atlas and self-managed deployments. Our work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, databases, and search infrastructure. We integrate Apache Lucene with MongoDB using native query operators like $search and $vectorSearch, build asynchronous change-stream-driven indexing pipelines that scale independently from transactional workloads, and support deployments across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Engineers on this team own…
Provenance
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