Senior Software Engineer, Storage Layer Services

What you’ll do Design, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances. Solve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions. Contribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on‑call improvements. Lead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates. Partner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long‑term roadmaps. Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment. We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi‑tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence. Experience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++. Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes). Experience with observability tooling (e.g. time series metrics, dashboards). Experience with distributed systems. Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems. Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues. Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity. Demonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers. Strong candidates may also have Experience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code. Experience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing. Experience building scalable cloud services on multiple cloud provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Interest in the theory and practice of high‑availability systems (hands‑on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus). Success Measures In 3 months, you’ll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems. In 6 months, you’ll have contributed to a large project. In 12 months, you’ll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go‑to expert on parts of the system. MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 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.

REQ ID: 2273451807

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$126,000—$248,000 USD

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, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender‑inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. #J-18808-Ljbffr MongoDB