Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Search Systems

MongoDB•New York, NY

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

Our team is building the cloud-based distributed systems software responsible for the lifecycle of search indexes including: data ingestion, index building, partitioning, performance, availability, and backup management. Our product is quickly gaining traction with customers and we are making core architectural improvements that you will contribute to. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in NYC for our hybrid working model.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software in a complex codebase
Experience developing distributed systems and cloud services
Experience with at least one modern statically typed programming language, and interest in working with Java. Java experience is strongly preferred
Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills; enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues and mentoring other engineers
A growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback
A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of projects that improve the scalability of Atlas Search to make using it a seamless experience for even the largest workloads
Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers
Lead projects and own subsystems
Help determine the team’s roadmap and the architecture of our system