Senior Staff Engineer, Replicated Storage Services

Candidate Profile

• Minimum 12 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.

Responsibilities

• 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) our most complex and time-sensitive customer escalations
• Lead development and project management of some of the largest projects in the company
• 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

Success Measures

• 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.

Perks and Benefits

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!