Minimum 5 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
Handle customer escalations
Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives
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