Senior Software Engineer, Query Optimization
MongoDB · Austin · New York City
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- Remote-friendly
- Posted
- 2026-08-07
- Team
- Online Transaction Processing
Role description
Join the MongoDB Server Query Optimization team, and help us build a world-class distributed open-source query optimizer. Our team plays a crucial role in the experience and performance of data processing. We are responsible for the MongoDB Query Language and the lifecycle of each query, through parsing, optimization and plan selection. We have tons of interesting problems to solve with a direct impact on users for transactional, time-series, and analytical workloads. The team is endeavoring to systematically rewrite every major component of our optimization and execution systems. We need your help to design and build the heart of a distributed, flexible schema, document database.…
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