Staff Engineer, MongoDB
Data Federation and Online Archive
$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
- 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; Go and Java experience a plus (but not required)
- Extensive experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale; Kubernetes experience is a plus (but not required)
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer on the Atlas Data Federation and Archiving team, you'll lead initiatives to drive technical excellence across our federated query system and data archival systems
- You'll balance hands-on development with technical leadership, focusing on operational excellence, system reliability, and mentoring
- This role offers the opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale while improving the reliability and performance of business-critical systems
- Your work will directly impact thousands of MongoDB Atlas customers who depend on our data federation and archiving capabilities for their critical business operations
- 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
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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Insights
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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