Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Scalability

MongoDB is a data platform company that provides distributed database infrastructure and tools. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build data partitioning, data movement, and dynamic-scaling capabilities for distributed systems, while solving complex performance and reliability challenges. The role also includes contributing to projects, conducting code and design reviews, leading feature development, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• You'll collaboratively design and build the distributed machinery that turns independent query-processing and storage nodes into a single, unified database system
• Your team’s work will be to build the data-movement and dynamic-scaling features that run on top of it
• You'll solve complex performance problems and design protocols for moving and placing data without disruption
• Your work will help the architecture scale reliably to meet customer demand at any volume
• In your first month, you’ll understand the high-level architecture of MongoDB, dive into the details of your team’s components, and resolve a few bugs
• In the first three months, you’ll contribute to the development of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in design reviews for new features
• In the first six months, you’ll lead the development of a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality, written in C++
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems, as well as hands-on or academic experience in the domain
• Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB
• High performance / low latency networking
• Performance tuning
• Distributed systems
• System observability
• System resiliency