Staff Software Engineer, Query (Optimization)

MongoDB
Full-time Canada, Alberta Computer Occupations
Posted:
March 03, 2026
Location:
Canada, Alberta, Canada

Job 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 a presence across the US and Europe including New York, Dublin, Seattle, Palo Alto, and Chicago. We support office-based and remote work and align projects with convenient work hours for each time zone.


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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    Job Overview

    Job Type: Full-time
    Location: Canada, Canada
    Posted: March 03, 2026
    Deadline: April 12, 2026