Senior Software Engineer, MongoDB Server Clusters and Interfaces
About The Position
Join one of our Clusters and Integrations teams, and help build the core infrastructure that will help MongoDB become a world-class distributed database! On Clusters & Interfaces, you’ll work on some of the hardest, most impactful problems MongoDB is facing today in areas like networking, observability, workload management, and data movement. Recently, we’ve been focusing on strengthening MongoDB’s availability guarantees through improvements in connection management, load shedding, robust scale-out, and availability testing. Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core features of a popular database, join us! Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, system architects, and database operators. This role will be based remotely the United States.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building distributed systems
- Solid experience writing and reviewing code in C++
- Proficiency in C++. Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality.
- Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
- Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems, as well as hands-on or academic experience in the domain
- Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB
- Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as: High performance / low latency networking Performance tuning Distributed systems System observability System resiliency
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity in Rust!
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB
- Take on code review responsibilities
- Participate in design reviews for new features
- Lead the development of a new feature
- Help mentor new engineers on the team
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
