Who you are

• Minimum 10 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++ software systems. Candidates with more experience will be considered for more senior roles. Experience in C++ is preferable, but not required
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling
• Familiarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance
• Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers and interns
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to make realistic assessments of project complexity
• Passion for learning new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

What the job involves

• The MongoDB Replication Team builds infrastructure to support fault tolerance, high availability, and tunable consistency
• Distributed systems is a core focus of MongoDB, so the projects delivered by the Replication Team are highly visible and are typically among the flagship features for each major MongoDB release, including multi-document transactions
• We’re currently working on improving our API and interface boundaries so that we can meet the performance and correctness needs of the world’s most demanding enterprises while enabling new, more efficient data storage and retrieval patterns
• This role will develop novel data replication solutions based on the Raft consensus protocol for ensuring automatic failover and zero-downtime of user applications
• Handle distributed systems related customer escalations from Technical Support team
• Write production-ready database code in C++
• Write unit tests and integration tests in C++, Javascript, and Python to demonstrate application correctness
• Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, and fix them
• Investigate the performance impact of code changes that may cause software performance regressions
• Interview candidates for software engineering positions
• Develop and maintain expertise on cutting edge database and distributed systems research from industry and academia
• Handle (or lead the effort to handle) time-sensitive customer escalations
• Lead development and project management of large, cross-team projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives
• Advise Product Management on engineering complexity and inter-project dependencies
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define product roadmaps
• In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of MongoDB replication and fixed a few bugs
• In three months, you will have contributed to the development in C++ of a project slated for the next major release of MongoDB, and diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues
• In six months, you will have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In twelve months, you will be leading the development of a new feature and helping to mentor new engineers on the team

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