Staff Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Cluster-to-Cluster Team and contribute to the development and improvement of mongosync, a crucial tool for database synchronization and migration. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining a high-performance distributed service. You will work with a team of experienced engineers to enhance the Atlas Live Migration cloud service. The position requires extensive experience in distributed systems, database design, and cloud services. This role can be based in our NYC office or remotely in North America. MongoDB offers a supportive and enriching culture with various employee benefits.

Requirements

• Experience designing, writing, testing, and maintaining databases or distributed systems
• Curiosity, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering
• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality
• Experience building and maintaining large scale cloud services to a high level of operational excellence, including experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems
• Demonstrated success in industry and/or academic research in the domain

Responsibilities

• Research state-of-the-art distributed systems architecture to inform our design
• Leverage deep knowledge of the strength and weakness of the product and the industry trends to provide technical vision and direction
• Set initiative level strategy, architect, plan, and lead team towards successful execution
• Advise management on decisions related to roadmap, processes, architecture and design
• Trace down defects, estimate work complexity, and design evolution and integration strategies as we rewrite different components of the system
• Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features in a relatively new and quickly evolving Go codebase
• Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure, robust, well-reasoned industrial-strength software
• Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, achieving operational excellence in managing our cloud migration service
• Positively influence and grow team members through active mentoring, coaching and leading by example

Benefits

• Employee affinity groups
• Fertility assistance
• A generous parental leave policy