Data Engineering at MongoDB
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L5 senior data engineer at MongoDB sits around $227K total comp from 15 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of MongoDB, AWS and Azure, according to current job listings. MongoDB pays data engineers in line with other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 4.0 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at MongoDB reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 5 data engineering roles are open right now.
MongoDB data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual MongoDB offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
MongoDB employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent MongoDB events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureMar 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureNov 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureApr 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureFeb 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureDec 2024Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
MongoDB data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools MongoDB data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
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IcebergMongoDB data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Design and build AI agents that can help automate many of the common development and support tasks that the team performs
We're looking for a Software Engineer with a strong background in computer science fundamentals, systems design, experience in the Java ecosystem, streaming systems, and data-intensive applications to join our engineering team.
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.
Practice for the MongoDB loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the MongoDB loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare MongoDB with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at MongoDB interview difficulty
- 01
Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
- 03
5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition