Lead Engineer, Online Archive Storage Systems

MongoDB • Seattle, WA

74d • $137,000 - $270,000

About The Position

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams building and operating production systems
• 5+ years software engineering experience, primarily in backend/distributed systems
• Comfort with 24/7 on-call rotation responsibilities

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with petabyte-scale data infrastructure or storage systems
• Experience building team consensus on architectural decisions across multiple engineering orgs
• Production Go or similar systems language experience
• Familiarity with cloud storage primitives (S3, GCS, Azure Blob)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5-8 engineers (currently 6) building the next generation of MongoDB's archival infrastructure
• Be a hands-on technical leader, with significant IC time spanning coding, architecture, and technical reviews
• Mentor and guide your team members, fostering their technical growth and career development
• Collaborate with product management and peers on the archival product roadmap
• Drive incident response and postmortems for production storage systems

Benefits

• 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
• Health benefits offerings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees