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This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently.\nWe are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team as we execute on a multi-year roadmap and prepare to launch and rapidly scale services that handle petabytes of data. Come do some of the most interesting work of your career as we Think Big and Go Far for our customers!\nThis role can be based out of our New York City office (hybrid working model) or remotely in the North America region.\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances.\nSolve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions.\nContribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements.\nLead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates.\nPartner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps.\nMentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment.\nWe’re looking for someone with\n5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence.\nExperience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++.\nExperience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes).\nExperience with observability tooling (e.g. time series metrics, dashboards).\nExperience with distributed systems.\nFamiliarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems.\nExcellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues.\nStrong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity.\nDemonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers.\nStrong candidates may also have\nExperience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code.\nExperience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing.\nExperience building scalable cloud services on multiple cloud provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).\nInterest in the theory and practice of high-availability systems (hands-on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus).\nSuccess Measures\nIn 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems.\nIn 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project.\nIn 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system.\nAbout MongoDB\nMongoDB 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.\nWith 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.\nOur 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. \nTo 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!\nMongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. 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