Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Storage Layer Services
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MongoDB is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Storage Layer Services team. The role focuses on re-architecting cloud storage by building and operating performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services, while improving availability, performance, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances
- Solve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions
- Contribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements
- Lead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates
- Partner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence
- Experience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++
- Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g. time series metrics, dashboards)
- Experience with distributed systems
- Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues
- Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity
- Demonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers
- Experience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code
- Experience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing
- Experience building scalable cloud services on multiple cloud provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability systems (hands-on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus)
Benefits
- This role can be based out of our New York City office (hybrid working model) or remotely in the North America region.
- Employee affinity groups
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: equity
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: participation in the employee stock purchase program
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: flexible paid time off
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: fertility and adoption assistance
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: 401(k) plan
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: mental health counseling
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- For eligible U.S.-based employees: health benefits offerings
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