Staff Software Engineer, Replicated Storage Services (Replication)

MongoDB•New York, NY

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The MongoDB Replication Team builds infrastructure to support fault tolerance, high availability, and tunable consistency. Distributed systems is a core focus of MongoDB, so the projects delivered by the Replication Team are highly visible and are typically among the flagship features for each major MongoDB release, including multi-document transactions. We’re currently working on improving our API and interface boundaries so that we can meet the performance and correctness needs of the world’s most demanding enterprises while enabling new, more efficient data storage and retrieval patterns. 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. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. Candidate Profile

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++ software systems. Candidates with more experience will be considered for more senior roles. Experience in C++ is preferable, but not required
Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling
Familiarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance
Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems
Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers and interns
Excellent time management skills and the ability to make realistic assessments of project complexity
Passion for learning new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

Responsibilities

Develop novel data replication solutions based on the Raft consensus protocol for ensuring automatic failover and zero-downtime of user applications
Handle distributed systems related customer escalations from Technical Support team
Write production-ready database code in C++
Write unit tests and integration tests in C++, Javascript, and Python to demonstrate application correctness
Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, and fix them
Investigate the performance impact of code changes that may cause software performance regressions
Interview candidates for software engineering positions
Develop and maintain expertise on cutting edge database and distributed systems research from industry and academia
Handle (or lead the effort to handle) time-sensitive customer escalations
Lead development and project management of large, cross-team projects
Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives
Advise Product Management on engineering complexity and inter-project dependencies
Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define product roadmaps