Staff Engineer, MongoDB
Replication
$137-270k
Developer data platform
Open for applications
Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$137-270k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of MongoDB replication and fixed a few bugs
- In three months, you will have contributed to the development in C++ of a project slated for the next major release of MongoDB, and diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues
- In six months, you will have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
- In twelve months, you will be leading the development of a new feature and helping to mentor new engineers on the team
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company values
- Think Big, Go Far
- Build Together
- Embrace the Power of Differences
- Be Intellectually Honest
- Own What You Do
- Make it Matter
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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