Senior Software Engineer
MongoDB- Base salary
- $101k–$273k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - New York City, NY or Remote - North America Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About the Role
MongoDB's Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer, building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that enhance today's Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run efficiently. This role can be based out of the New York City office (hybrid working model) or remotely in the North America region.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances.
- Solve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions.
- Contribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements.
- Lead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates.
- Partner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps.
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence.
- Experience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g., time series metrics, dashboards).
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems.
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues.
- Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity.
- Demonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers.
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code.
- Experience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing.
- Experience building scalable cloud services on multiple cloud provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability systems (hands-on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus).
Success Measures
- In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems.
- In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project.
- In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system.
Compensation & Benefits
MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $101,000—$273,000 USD. 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 and benefits are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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