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MongoDB Senior Software Engineer RSS 
United States, New York, New York 
846604457

24.06.2024
Candidate Profile
  • 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
$231,000 USD