Expoint - all jobs in one place

Finding the best job has never been easier

Limitless High-tech career opportunities - Expoint

MongoDB Staff Engineer Workload Scheduling 
Canada 
462936755

14.04.2025
Candidate Profile
  • 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, including extensive experience with availability and performance
  • Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality. Experience in C++ and/or Rust is preferable
  • Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems
  • Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers and interns
  • Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity
  • Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as:
    • Performance tuning
    • Writing software to observe and mitigate overload scenarios for highly performant and concurrent systems
    • Load and availability testing
  • Experience in delivering and deploying a product with several cross-team stakeholders to a large base of end-users
Position Expectations
  • Write production-ready code in C++ or Rust, improve the existing code and mentor engineers on the team to write high quality code
  • Write tests in C++, Rust, Javascript, and Python, identify key coverage gaps in correctness and performance testing
  • Develop and architect novel ways to observe, detect and mitigate overload of the database
  • Leverage deep knowledge of the strength and weakness of the product and the industry trends to provide technical vision and direction
  • Set initiative level strategy and guide the team towards successful execution with measurable outcomes
  • Advise product and engineering management on decisions related to roadmap, processes, architecture and design
  • Advocate across the organization for improvements and setting the standard on writing secure, robust, well-reasoned industrial-strength software
  • Work with other teams including client drivers, cloud services, enterprise tools, support, consulting, education, and marketing to coordinate changes and ensure successful delivery of product features
  • Handle (or lead the effort to handle) time-sensitive customer escalations
Success Measures
  • In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version of MongoDB, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series; You'll have learned about MongoDB's project lifecycle, and the team’s long-term goals for the system
  • In six months, you’ll have taken on code review responsibilities and are playing an active role in drafting and reviewing the design for new features; You are starting to take ownership of high-level execution goals for the team
  • In twelve months, on the basis of your extensive past experience in the large-scale distributed systems and performance programming space, you have contributed to the long-term technical roadmap of the MongoDB Workload Scheduling team
$221,000 CAD