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Join and be a part of leading the MongoDB Service Architecture team, helping build the core of a distributed database! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication all within a single process, between cooperating distributed processes, and between the database and the operating system. Service Architecture’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, maintaining MongoDB networking and command dispatch systems, improving the programming model, and building low level reusable software components that can be leveraged by other teams working on the database.

Our team currently consists of eight engineers, half located in New York City and half fully remote. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the performance and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall. Recently we’ve worked on testing the performance of various memory allocators, introducing a new networking stack, and adding cluster connection health metrics to the MongoDB server.

Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

Note: This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.

Position Expectations

Manage a small team of individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
Foster a positive and effective team culture
Balance your time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule
Maintain expertise on state of the art software technologies and best practices
Aid Product Management in navigating difficult tradeoffs in prioritization
Collaborate with other server engineers, client drivers, cloud services, support, consulting, training, and marketing teams to coordinate changes
Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to networking, intra/inter-process communication, performance and observability in a large feature-rich C++ codebase
Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure, robust, well-reasoned industrial-strength software

Success Measures

In three months:

You've met with all of your team members and are starting to learn their interests, strengths, and areas for development
You’ll have contributed to a project slated for the next major version of the MongoDB server, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series

In six months:

We'll be relying on you for code reviews and reviewing the designs for new features
You have worked with each team member to develop a growth plan tailored to their career goals

In twelve months

You’re leading the development of a new major feature
You have a clear understanding of the longer term roadmap and have integrated a plan to accomplish it with your team at MongoDB
You have established your role as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally go to you for guidance

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.

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