Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Atlas Data Federation and Archiving team as a Staff Engineer and lead initiatives to enhance the technical excellence of our federated query and data archival systems. You will balance hands-on development with technical leadership, focusing on operational excellence and system reliability. This role involves solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale, directly impacting thousands of MongoDB Atlas customers. You will mentor senior engineers and collaborate with product management. The position can be based in our New York office or remotely within the United States. MongoDB offers a supportive and enriching culture with various benefits.

Requirements

• 10+ years software engineering, primarily focused on backend systems
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and build consensus through evidence-based persuasion
• Strong systems programming background
• Extensive experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Track record of improving system reliability and operational excellence
• Experience with large-scale data processing or storage systems (e.g. data lake technologies, distributed databases, disaggregated storage, etc.)
• Knowledge of modern observability practices and tools
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives as an individual contributor
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving technical excellence within a team

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to improve system observability, stability, and resource management
• Design and implement advanced autoscaling solutions for query execution and data processing
• Reduce incident rates through holistic improvements to system resilience
• Identify opportunities to improve operating costs in storage and query systems
• Guide architectural decisions and conduct design reviews across two engineering teams
• Mentor senior engineers in distributed systems design and operational excellence
• Collaborate with Product Management on technical roadmap development
• Drive cross-team technical initiatives and standards
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide senior oversight for incident response and postmortem retrospectives
• Design and implement improvements to our distributed query execution engine
• Optimize data archival pipelines for increased throughput, durability and reliability
• Design and implement solutions for single-tenant isolation requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Go and Java experience
• Kubernetes experience

Benefits

• 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
• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program