MongoDB Staff Software Engineer Replicated Storage Services Execution 

United States, New York, New York 

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This role will be based out of our New York City office.

• Minimum 10 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 storage solutions that meet high availability and performance needs of customers
• Build and maintain a modular storage engine API that supports other MongoDB server components
• Handle customer escalations from the Technical Support team in our area of ownership
• 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) time-sensitive customer escalations
• Lead development and project management of large, cross-team projects
• 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 the MongoDB storage system 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 will be involved in reviewing the designs 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