Senior Python Engineer

MongoDB•San Francisco, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Database Experience (DBX) Team A great MongoDB experience starts with great tools. The Database Experience team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with MongoDB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users. Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well. For this role, we're looking for someone who will enjoy designing, writing, and supporting open source libraries for the Python ecosystem developers that use MongoDB. This is an opportunity to make a major impact at MongoDB as Python is one of the most popular runtimes for MongoDB users, and our driver has over 3 million daily pypi downloads. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in the United States for our hybrid working model. You might be right for this role if you... Have substantial experience writing high-quality software in Python Have practical experience with AI/ML frameworks and technologies in Python, including large language models and agentic tools Have extensive knowledge in Python tools and frameworks, scientific python and web development frameworks are a plus Have an interest in learning and staying up-to-date with Python ecosystem trends and best practices and incorporating them into your work Can make pragmatic design decisions, balancing tradeoffs such as usability, maintainability and delivery time Want to, or already do, participate in open source software development and communities, both online via e.g. GitHub and optionally through conferences and speaking engagements Communicate well, internally and externally, both verbally and in writing Enjoy collaborating with teammates, and mentoring junior engineers and interns Are self-motivated, organized, and have strong time management skills

Requirements

Have substantial experience writing high-quality software in Python
Have practical experience with AI/ML frameworks and technologies in Python, including large language models and agentic tools
Have extensive knowledge in Python tools and frameworks, scientific python and web development frameworks are a plus
Have an interest in learning and staying up-to-date with Python ecosystem trends and best practices and incorporating them into your work
Can make pragmatic design decisions, balancing tradeoffs such as usability, maintainability and delivery time
Want to, or already do, participate in open source software development and communities, both online via e.g. GitHub and optionally through conferences and speaking engagements
Communicate well, internally and externally, both verbally and in writing
Enjoy collaborating with teammates, and mentoring junior engineers and interns
Are self-motivated, organized, and have strong time management skills

Responsibilities

Developing and supporting the MongoDB Python drivers and subsidiary libraries (PyMongo, Django MongoDB Backend, LangChain MongoDB) and related software, collaborating with peers in our distributed world-wide engineering team
Writing and maintaining open source specifications defining common behavior and APIs shared across all of our drivers
Investigating bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains
Working with our Product and Server teams on designs and specifications for new user-facing MongoDB features