About the role
MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Atlas Clusters team. The team is part of the organization responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.
The Atlas Clusters Workload Management team develops the software that manages the Atlas cluster infrastructure on the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to provide the best managed database performance experience. We are constantly challenged to improve the performance of Atlas Clusters by advancing our intelligent scaling algorithms, dynamically adjusting resources to optimize cloud provider capacity,
automating fleet-wide observability, and working closely with the MongoDB Server team to design new systems at a humongous scale.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our in office or hybrid working model.
What you’ll do
- Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas
- Contribute to and lead complex technical projects
- Work closely with product and design teams, considering the user’s perspective while building technical solutions
- Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues
- Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles
- Learn from and mentor other team members
We’re looking for someone who
- Has at least 3 years of professional software development experience
- Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
- Is comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g. React, TypeScript, Kubernetes)
- Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Has led the launch of a new feature and maintained it in production
- Is eager to solve tough problems
- Has excellent communication skills
- Is curious, collaborative, and motivated
Success Measures
- In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
- In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project
- In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system