Lead Engineer, MongoDB
Storage Layer Services
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
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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
- If you are passionate about data management, distributed systems, and leadership, and are excited to work on high-impact, high-growth projects, we would love to hear from you
- 3+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, compensation planning, mentoring and growing strong software engineering teams
- 8+ years of experience building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. Experience in data management systems and systems integration is ideal
- Demonstrates excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers and lead projects
- Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
- Solid experience in designing, writing, testing, and maintaining highly distributed systems and/or data storage software. Professional or advanced academic expertise in the domains of data storage is preferable but not required
- Experience with large backend/compiled codebases and compiled languages, preferably in Rust/Go/Java
- Regardless of prior experience, they are willing, able, and excited to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering
- They are curious about how people and organizations use MongoDB, and how MongoDB storage services could be improved to enable more use cases
What the job involves
- The Storage Layer Services Team is currently rethinking the MongoDB Cloud Storage Layer
- This team sits at the heart of the next generation MongoDB Cloud Storage Architecture and is working to build performant distributed storage services both to enhance our existing MongoDB cloud storage architecture and to more efficiently support our customers' use cases
- As the Team Lead for the Storage Layer Services, you will be responsible for leading and growing the engineering team taking on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems underlying Atlas
- The team prides itself on building high-quality software using clean abstractions, and lives MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition
- Our team is distributed across North America, supporting both in-office and remote work with convenient work hours for each time-zone
- Join us as a Team Lead and help us shape the future of data storage!
- Onboard onto a highly technical product as an individual contributor to gain product knowledge before taking on managerial responsibilities
- Actively participate in hiring for the Storage Layer Services team
- Lead and grow other engineers to coordinate seamless changes in a growing, feature-rich code base
- Implement and operate (oncall) production-ready applications
- Work with product managers, program managers, and other teams to specify, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users
- Estimate task complexity, report progress, and voice risks for projects executed by reports
- Ensure that the team is running smoothly by helping to eliminate technical barriers, coordinating with other teams regarding dependencies, and focusing on the overall happiness of the team
- Contribute to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, future hiring plans, and assignment of projects
- Lead the design and implementation of new functionality in Storage Layer Service product’s availability and stability
- Estimates the delivery timeline for projects, and communicates well with upper management regarding project execution
- In the first month, you’ll have understood the surface area, the high level architecture of the MongoDB Storage Layer Service
- In three months, you’ll have onboarded onto the team, contributed to the design and development of features, and taken on full responsibility for projects slated for the subsequent quarter
- In six months, you have hired engineers for your team and led the development of multiple new features
- In twelve months, you’ll have performed a full annual cycle of performance and growth conversations with your team members, contributed to the vision for the future of the Storage Layer Service team and helped develop a plan to achieve that vision
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Articles
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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