[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Storage Layer Services
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MongoDB is re-architecting its cloud storage layer through its Storage Layer Services (SLS) team, which is focused on building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services. They are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to execute on a multi-year roadmap and prepare to launch and scale services that handle petabytes of data.
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
- Equity
- Participation in the employee stock purchase program
- Flexible paid time off
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- 401(k) plan
- Mental health counseling
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Health benefits offerings
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