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MongoDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database ...
MongoDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is 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. This includes developing software to interface with
the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all
deployments of MongoDB.
We are forming a new Atlas Clusters team in the Dublin area. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin and
would like a hybrid or in-office working model.
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the
data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data
platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform 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 data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 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.
The Atlas API Experience (APIx) teams are part of MongoDB Atlas Data Services, a diverse group of individuals who develop the capabilities to run MongoDB globally (see MongoDB Atlas). Our software and services allow users to deploy fault-tolerant, scalable, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in minutes. APIx’s mission is to create delightful experiences that bring developers along on the journey from eager beginner to sophisticated MongoDB expert! As part of our team in APIx, you will be responsible for improving & extending our API platform & downstream tooling, such as the Atlas CLI. Our mission is to help Atlas customers automate their workloads easily through APIs & support internal teams contributing to the API. We are looking for passionate, intrinsically-motivated software engineers who lead by example, raise the bar for those around them, and want to make a broad impact. No prior experience with MongoDB technologies is required! During interviews, you will meet most of our team and have the opportunity to ask questions about working at MongoDB. We pride ourselves on our team's culture and on being an inclusive and collaborative group that Builds Together. This role can be based in our Dublin office or remotely within Ireland. WHAT WILL YOU DO? * Propose, design, implement and support product features for the MongoDB Atlas API Platform & MongoDB Atlas DevTools, such as AtlasCLI * Build tooling that enables MongoDB users and developers to succeed, using programming languages such as Java, Go, Python & Javascript/Typescript * Design and develop software integration components utilizing MongoDB’s technology (i.e. database, mobile, search, etc.) in larger contexts and integrate into partner frameworks or solutions * Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers through code and design reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing * Lead sophisticated projects end to end, breaking large efforts into incrementally shippable deliverables * Investigate and resolve and solving problems experienced by our customers, including complex and cross-team escalations. Our team has a Level 2 support rotation * Apply our core values to your planning, designing, and coding work WHO ARE YOU? We don't expect you to tick every box. If you bring deep experience across most of the below and are excited to grow into the rest, we encourage you to apply. * A track record of independently delivering complex projects and leading the technical decisions that shape them * Inspired by building systems that manage infrastructure at scale * Approachable, curious, and intellectually honest * Collaborate and communicate effectively across multiple teams, locally & remote across timezones, internally and externally as required, to drive projects to completion * Enjoys an environment where you can coordinate your own time, prioritizing, and acting on multiple tasks concurrently without manager oversight * Proficient in at least one of Java, Go, Python, or Javascript/Typescript, and able to pick up others as needed * Experience building developer tooling, APIs, and/or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) integrations * Working knowledge of at least one major cloud infrastructure platform (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc.) HOW WILL YOU MEASURE SUCCESS? * In three months, you'll have become familiar with our developer tools and the existing features most relevant to integrations * In six months, you will be independently leading projects and delivering complex features.. You will share knowledge with the team, collaborating where needed to achieve our team goals * In nine months, you will be fully embedded in the team. As well as leading your projects, you will be contributing ideas to the team roadmap, improving how we work. You will be mentoring other team members, helping them learn from your experience WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU? * Generous compensation package (top-range salary, equity, comprehensive benefits) * Flexible working options with a focus on results rather than time spent in the office * A high level of independence in your day-to-day work. Propose innovative solutions to existing problems and own the delivery from start to finish * Opportunities to learn on the job (time and support to upskill in new technologies and learn new programming languages, as well as an allowance for educational material) * Exposure to a wide variety of market verticals and a broad spectrum of interesting use cases * You'll be joining a supportive and collaborative team that values its culture and promotes a positive work environment! * Upon joining, you will have the opportunity to learn everything there is to know about MongoDB via specialized training on the MongoDB University platform and highly supportive colleagues 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 data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform 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 data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 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: 426104
The MongoDB Customer Observability Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database-as-a-service offering and fastest-growing product, which allows users to deploy globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to tackle exciting challenges within the Observability space. You'll contribute to developing tools and platforms that help our users understand the health and performance of their MongoDB deployments. This includes collecting metrics, monitoring slow queries, and offering actionable insights such as index and schema suggestions that improve the speed, efficiency, and overall reliability of their databases. This role provides a unique opportunity to drive engineering excellence across both dimensions of observability, leveraging technologies being developed within the Customer Observability group and contributing directly to the success of our customers and our product teams. If you're passionate about large-scale systems, digging deep into telemetry data, and building tools that make a real impact both internally and externally, we’d love to have you on board! We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO * Has at least 5 years of experience as a backend or full stack engineer * Enjoys collaboration and being part of a team * Is approachable, curious, and intellectually honest * Is a backend engineer with a willingness to take on frontend tasks or a full-stack developer with a bias towards backend * Has written backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.) * Has experience with the design and architecture of a modern, scalable web application * Enjoys chasing down difficult problems in a distributed environment and on an database diagnostic/operation level * Always strives to expand their knowledge and keeps up to date with new technologies * Is familiar with debugging and troubleshooting production issues * Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures and their time and space complexity NICE TO HAVES * Has worked with distributed event streaming platforms like Kafka or WarpStream and/or event processing platforms like Flink * Experience developing and writing code observability tools * Previous work in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, particularly maintaining an ecosystem of dependencies * Knowledge of database internals and tuning mechanisms, particularly indexing ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES * Design, write and maintain Observability code and features * Contribute to and lead complex technical projects * Investigate large scale distributed production issues * Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices and design principles * Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues and become part of our on-call rotation * Mentor junior team members SUCCESS MEASURES * In 1 month, you'll be familiar with the parts of the system that your team owns, the existing features, and projects within the Observability team and have contributed minor tasks within our codebase * In 3 months, you will be contributing to design and development of your team’s projects and starting to ship tickets regularly * In 6 months, you will have ramped up enough to take on medium+ sized projects, contribute actively in our technical discussions and proactively improve our codebase and products. You will be supporting our customers during escalations and have joined our on-call rotation 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 data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform 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 data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 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: 426170
The worldwide data management software market is massive (IDC forecasts it to be $138 billion by 2026). At MongoDB, we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the center of innovation and creativity. MongoDB is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join the Atlas Core Data Services organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product, along with the API Platform and Developer Tools. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. The Atlas Core Data Services organization builds the software that manages the Atlas cluster infrastructure hosted on the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP), as well as the software that manages the MongoDB database hosted on that infrastructure. We are constantly challenged to design features that ensure Atlas clusters are secure, available, durable, and performant while running large-scale, critical workloads. The Sr. Staff Engineer in this role will drive innovation across the organization and the company, setting technical standards and direction that enable future growth and velocity. We are looking for engineers with the experience and high standards needed to lead at that scale. Our organization champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to be a deeply technical leader on a collaborative team that applies systems expertise to build the foundational infrastructure of a popular database, join us. Let's build a faster, more reliable, and highly scalable database platform together. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. RESPONSIBILITIES * Define standards and vision for the mission-critical Atlas SaaS data platform, leading the architecture and implementation of components that drive performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resiliency * Drive the technical design of new features from inception to market, with a focus on delivering high customer impact * Work closely with engineering, product, and design leadership, distinguished engineers, and peers to guide technical strategy, define product roadmaps, and advise on engineering complexity and inter-project dependencies * Oversee the implementation of large-scale, cross-organizational features from design through delivery * Handle production customer escalations from the Technical Support team and coach teammates to do the same * Write production-ready database code, improve the existing codebase, and mentor teammates to consistently raise the quality bar * Collaborate with team members to evolve the codebase, best practices, and design principles that underpin the Atlas platform * Ensure the codebase achieves a high standard for quality across security, durability, availability, performance, and maintainability * Drive AI engineering strategy within the Atlas Core Data Services organization to accelerate developer velocity at all levels of the engineering team * Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions * Develop and maintain expertise in cutting-edge database developments from industry and academia SUCCESS MEASURES * In the first month, you will have understood the high-level architecture of MongoDB Atlas, contributed to one or more projects at an IC level, and resolved bugs * In three months, you will have contributed to the development 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 are involved in reviewing the design for new features * In twelve months, you will be leading the development of new features and initiatives, mentoring engineers on the team, and using your experience to drive the long-term technical roadmap of MongoDB Atlas CANDIDATE PROFILE * Solving complex problems at scale, and to high standards, excites you * Minimum 15 years of experience in designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++/Java/Rust mission-critical software systems * Experience running latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems * Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, distributed systems at scale, and expert-level programming * Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems * Familiarity with a hosted database ecosystem and best practices * Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor engineers * Excellent time and project management skills, including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity * A good understanding of information security management 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 data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform 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 data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 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: 1273387822