Staff Engineer, MongoDB

• We are looking for someone with deep experience in Cloud technologies who can partner with the Director of Cloud Billing to guide Cloud Billing into its next phase of growth
• This person should be a beacon of technical excellence within the Cloud Billing teams, serving as a source of inspiration for the teams to learn from and lean on and modeling our core values and leadership principles
• Deep experience building and maintaining large scale systems
• Extensive technical leadership experience, with a proven track record of autonomously delivering large, complex projects
• 10+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale, mission critical, distributed systems
• 7+ years of experience working with a JVM language (preferably Java) or any Object Oriented language
• Knowledgeable in building, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining services in a production environment
• Experience using non-relational (e.g., MongoDB) or relational databases at scale
• Expertise with Cloud platform services (e.g., AWS) and a good understanding of inter-service communication protocols (eg, sync vs async)
• Superb written and verbal communication skills
• Equally comfortable communicating and collaborating with engineering leaders, technical experts, and non-technical stakeholders across business units

Desirable

• This role can be based out of our Berlin office or remotely in the Germany region
• Collect and aggregate metering data from a variety of internal and external services
• Calculate and generate daily customer bills
• Continuously improve the customer experience
• Continuously improve and scale our backend systems
• Ingest and aggregate detailed usage data from the major Cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)
• Integrate with our internal data lake to support the business analytics needs of the Finance team
• Integrate with internal business systems to support the Sales, Marketing, and Accounting teams
• Become an expert in our systems, tools and processes
• Partner with Director of Cloud Billing to create and execute on the technical vision and roadmap for the future of Cloud Billing
• Advocate for new tools and technologies needed to drive the roadmap forward with your peers, product managers, and engineering leadership
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve our systems, tools and processes
• Serve as the technical lead for complex features and technical projects (e.g., creating a next generation distributed architecture for a legacy code base, enhancing observability, increasing resilience, meeting SLAs at rapidly increasing scale,)
• Foster the professional growth of the team through mentorship, sharing industry knowledge and experience, and providing architectural guidance
• Contribute to the codebase through your own coding projects and conducting ardent code reviews