Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The Build Team supports build systems for the entire MongoDB engineering organization. This includes implementing and maintaining our Bazel build system, for both the database server, Mongo Cloud (“Atlas”), as well as a suite of other products. These build systems handle a variety of languages (primarily C++, Java and Go), and provide not just compilation, but packaging and distribution. Most MongoDB engineers rely on these tools for their daily work. In addition to developing new build-related capabilities, the Build team provides ongoing support for our 750+ internal engineers.

We are looking for an individual who has a deep empathy for engineering teams, cares strongly about quality code, and effectively scaling development. Specifically if you are passionate about reducing build times, reducing continuous integration times, and working to improve developer satisfaction - this role is for you!

This role can be based remotely in the United States.

The right candidate for this role will:

• Have deep technical expertise in build systems including experience with C++
• Understand the whole picture of developer productivity work, including ensuring that Build team’s work drives improvements in our customers’ write-build-test loop
• Be dedicated to writing maintainable, well-tested code, with modern best practices
• Be energized by supporting customer requests, including thoughtful technical support and empowering customers to self-service their own solutions

Bonus points if the candidate has experience with:

• Administration/maintenance of a Bazel build system on a large codebase
• C++, Java, Go and/or Python
• Integrating static analysis tools (e.g.: sanitizers, graph visualization, code coverage, debuggers, profilers)
• Speeding up compile times
• Compiler internals
• Docker containers and package management

Position Expectations

• Design, develop, and test solutions to improve developer experience
• Mentor other developers
• Empathize and learn from other developers to understand their pain points
• Be willing and able to onboard successfully into unfamiliar tools and systems
• Collaborate productively with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery

Success Measures

• In the first month you will have made small but meaningful contributions to existing projects. You will have a high level understanding of the server and cloud team
• Within 3 months, you will have core contributions to at least one feature. You will have a good understanding of the team's mission and goals
• In six months you will be proposing improvements for developer experience. You will be taking responsibility for upcoming projects
• In a year you will be mentoring other developers. You will be designing and leading projects

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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