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Software Engineer 3, Networking & Observability
Mongodb INC · 🇺🇸 New York City; United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 93 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mongodb INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles29 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in NY: $132k–$161k, median $132k. Most were filed at wage level II (41%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 93 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Join the MongoDB Networking & Observability team and help build the core of a distributed database! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable. Networking Observability’s responsibilities include improving MongoDB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization, and building low-overhead observability features. Our team includes engineers located in New York City and fully remote engineers. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the availability, performance, and robustness of our open source database. Recently, we’ve improved connection handling, explored new networking architectures, and integrated OpenTelemetry to make issues easier to diagnose and connect MongoDB to modern observability tools. We are planning to further improve our networking’s stack performance, availability and scalability as well as further enhance our observability stack using open observability frameworks. Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together. This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely within the United States and Canada. Candidate Profile • 3+ years of experience building distributed systems • Passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders • Solid computer science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture • Hands-on experience with building production-level code. Experience in C++ is required • Interest in furthering their knowledge of networking, observability and how computer architecture and internals impact the availability of SaaS • Solid verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues Position Expectations • Understand and improve the current functionality of the MongoDB networking and observability codebase • Lead medium sized projects related to our networking code or observability frameworks from technical design to delivery • Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery) • Own our leadership principles , and exemplify them in your work • Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career! Success Measures • In one month, you'll have fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest release series • In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version • In six months, you’ll have taken on primary code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features • In twelve months, you’re making significant contributions to the development of a new major features 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 s