Senior Software Engineer, Replicated Storage Services

About the position The MongoDB Next-Gen Platform Team within Replicated Storage Services is building MongoDB’s next-generation cloud storage and replication platform, modernizing the storage layer and architecture into a more cloud-native design, while leveraging the best of our existing technology. We’re currently working on improving our API and interface boundaries so that we can meet the performance and correctness needs of the world’s most demanding enterprises while enabling new, more efficient data storage and retrieval patterns. Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core features of a popular database, join us! Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, system architects, and database operators. This role can be based out of our NYC headquarters, office hub locations, or remotely in the United States and Canada. 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 • 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 Requirements • Minimum 5 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++ software systems. • 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 Nice-to-haves • Candidates with more experience will be considered for more senior roles. • Experience in C++ is preferable, but not required Benefits • equity • participation in the employee stock purchase program • flexible paid time off • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave • fertility and adoption assistance • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match • mental health counseling • backup child and elder care • health, dental, and vision benefits offerings

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