MongoDB Senior Staff Engineer Replicated Storage Services 

United States 

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This role will be based out of our Palo Alto office or remotely in the North America region.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.