Senior Software Engineer, MongoDB Server Clusters and Interfaces

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Toronto, ON
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137K-189K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
MongoDB empowers innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
The Role
The role involves building core infrastructure for MongoDB, focusing on distributed systems, networking, and performance tuning, while enhancing availability and observability.
Summary Generated by Built In

Join one of our Clusters and Integrations teams, and help build the core infrastructure that will help MongoDB become a world-class distributed database! On Clusters & Interfaces, you’ll work on some of the hardest, most impactful problems MongoDB is facing today in areas like networking, observability, workload management, and data movement. Recently, we’ve been focusing on strengthening MongoDB’s availability guarantees through improvements in connection management, load shedding, robust scale-out, and availability testing.

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 will be based remotely in Canada.

Candidate Profile
  • 5+ years of experience building distributed systems
  • Solid experience writing and reviewing code in C++
  • Proficiency in C++. Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality. Bonus for familiarity in Rust!
  • Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
  • Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems, as well as hands-on or academic experience in the domain
  • Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB
  • Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as:
    • High performance / low latency networking
    • Performance tuning
    • Distributed systems
    • System observability
    • System resiliency
Success Measures
  • In your first month, you’ll understand the high-level architecture of MongoDB, dive into the details of your team’s components, and resolve a few bugs
  • In the first three months, you’ll contribute to the development of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in design reviews for new features
  • In the first six months, you’ll lead the development of a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team
About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

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!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 425246

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: 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, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is:
$137,000$189,000 CAD

Top Skills

Algorithms
C++
Data Structures
Distributed Systems
Networking
Rust
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
5,550 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

The database market is big. How big? Well, according to IDC, it’ll reach $153 billion by 2027. And MongoDB is at the forefront of that innovation with thousands of customers across the globe. We empower developers and businesses to build and deploy the applications they want, wherever they want.

Why Work With Us

We are ambitious. We are passionate about creativity. And we believe the best paths are the ones we have yet to forge.

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