# Senior Software Engineer, Competitive Benchmarking **Company**: MongoDB **Location**: Mexico City **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mongodb/jobs/8177031?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e39d469f-b0b ## Description ### Job Overview We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the PM Benchmarking team in Mexico City. This team designs and executes competitive performance testing that benchmarks MongoDB against alternative technologies, while also building reusable tooling, frameworks, and engineering practices. ### Responsibilities - Design performance and benchmarking workloads reflecting realistic customer or product scenarios. - Build and improve production-quality internal tooling, test harnesses, automation, and reusable workload components. - Write and maintain code primarily in Python, adapting to adjacent tools and technologies as needed. - Run benchmarks across cloud environments and database platforms, focusing on fairness, noise reduction, cost, and repeatability. - Analyze latency, throughput, scalability, and infrastructure signals to identify bottlenecks and explain results clearly. - Translate broad business or engineering questions into scoped technical plans, success criteria, and execution milestones. - Partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, and other stakeholders to ensure testing work is relevant and actionable. - Produce clear technical documents, reports, and summaries connecting findings to product decisions and field value. - Help shape team standards for documentation, onboarding, prioritization, and benchmark execution. - Mentor peers and contribute to a collaborative, low-ego engineering culture. ### Requirements - 5+ years of experience building, debugging, and improving distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems. - Strong software engineering fundamentals, including writing maintainable code, profiling performance, and debugging complex issues. - Hands-on experience with MongoDB architecture, MongoDB Query Language (MQL), and MongoDB performance tuning. - Experience with performance testing methodologies such as load, stress, latency, or scalability testing. - Experience designing and implementing benchmarking or performance-validation workflows. - Strong coding skills in Python or a similar language, plus the ability to learn new stacks quickly. - Strong hands-on experience with at least one of the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). - Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, Cassandra, or other competing data platforms. - Ability to reason about relational and document data models, distributed systems behavior, and infrastructure bottlenecks. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to work with ambiguity and define structure where needed. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. ### Nice to Have - Experience with CI/CD systems and integrating automated tests into engineering workflows. - Experience creating reusable technical documentation, runbooks, or internal playbooks. ### Success in this Role #### First 30 Days - Build a clear understanding of the team’s current workloads, tooling, roadmap, and stakeholder landscape. - Complete onboarding and identify the main technical systems, docs, and knowledge gaps. - Start contributing code, reviewing feedback, and supporting active benchmark efforts. #### First 90 Days - Independently contribute to the design, coding, execution, and analysis of multiple benchmark initiatives. - Improve at least one area of the team’s tooling, documentation, or execution workflow. - Build strong working relationships with key cross-functional partners. #### First 6 Months - Own meaningful benchmark or tooling work from scoping through delivery. - Improve repeatability, clarity, or efficiency in how the team designs, runs, or reports on tests. - Contribute to mentorship, documentation, or process improvements. #### First 12 Months - Be a trusted technical contributor across benchmark design, tooling, and analysis. - Influence how the team prioritizes and scales its work. - Expand your scope through technical leadership and deeper ownership of systems and processes. ## Skills ### Required - Python - MongoDB - performance testing - benchmarking - cloud computing - PostgreSQL - MySQL - Aurora - Cassandra - distributed systems - communication skills ### Nice to have - CI/CD systems - technical documentation - runbooks - internal playbooks --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mongodb/jobs/8177031?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)