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Software Engineer 3, Documentation Platform

MongoDB New York City; Palo Alto; Seattle Full-time Observability & Adoption Engineering Posted Jul 13, 2026
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What employees love

  • World-class enablement — best training programs many employees have encountered
  • Competitive pay with strong equity, especially for senior roles

What could be better

  • No 401k match and culture has gotten more political at scale
  • Work-life balance is team-dependent — some teams have long hours expectations
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About the Role

MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Documentation Platform Engineering Team. The Documentation Platform delivers 60M page views a year and is critical to our users’ understanding of MongoDB products.It is also increasingly the context engine that helps AI tools understand, surface, and recommend MongoDB correctly. You will contribute to the evolution of our documentation platform by building and improving internal infrastructure, integrations, and applications that support our documentation and learning experience.

This role can be based out of one of our offices in Canada or the USA, or remotely in Canada or the USA.

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About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

REQ ID: 2273491036

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$106,000$209,000 USD

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What is the work-life balance like at MongoDB?
MongoDB has a work-life balance score of 3.8/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is MongoDB’s culture like?
MongoDB is characterized by these culture values: open-source, eng-driven, learning, equity, product-impact. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 4/5. World-class enablement — best training programs many employees have encountered
How many open roles does MongoDB have?
MongoDB currently has 381 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
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