Lead Engineer, MongoDB
Online Archive Storage Systems
$137-270k
More information about location
1-5 days a week in office
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$137-270k
More information about location
1-5 days a week in office
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
- Experience leading engineering teams building and operating production systems
- 5+ years software engineering experience, primarily in backend/distributed systems
- Comfort with 24/7 on-call rotation responsibilities
- The ideal candidate would have:
- What matters most: Technical judgment, ability to mentor engineers, and appetite for tackling novel problems in data archiving at scale
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with petabyte-scale data infrastructure or storage systems
- Experience building team consensus on architectural decisions across multiple engineering orgs
- Production Go or similar systems language experience
- Familiarity with cloud storage primitives (S3, GCS, Azure Blob)
- But we're equally interested in candidates who:
- Come from adjacent domains (databases, data processing, cloud infrastructure) and want to dive deep into storage
- Have strong fundamentals but haven't worked at this specific scale yet
- Bring diverse technical backgrounds that challenge our assumptions
What the job involves
- The Atlas Data Federation and Archiving (ADFA) Storage Systems team is at the heart of MongoDB's data tiering and archiving solutions
- It owns the systems that move customer data from database clusters to cloud storage, enabling users to seamlessly tier their data to optimize cost and performance
- This team is responsible for the complete Online Archive data pipeline, from the archive agents and worker ingestion systems to a petabyte-scale storage system
- The team is embarking on a mission to build a next-generation, single-tenant archival solution for MongoDB's largest and most sophisticated enterprise customers
- This is a critical role that combines people management with deep technical expertise to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale
- Lead a team of 5-8 engineers (currently 6) building the next generation of MongoDB's archival infrastructure
- Be a hands-on technical leader, with significant IC time spanning coding, architecture, and technical reviews
- Mentor and guide your team members, fostering their technical growth and career development
- Collaborate with product management and peers on the archival product roadmap
- Drive incident response and postmortems for production storage systems
- Note: The position entails participating in a 24/7 support rotation approximately 1 week every 2 months
- We believe in high standards with high support. That means:
- Direct feedback delivered with genuine investment in people's growth
- Regular 1:1s that go beyond status updates—career development, skill building, honest assessment
- Willingness to have uncomfortable conversations early rather than letting issues fester
- Making tough calls (performance, scope, priorities) while bringing the team along
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
13% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
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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