MongoDB

Senior Software Engineer, Public Backup

MongoDB$126K — $248K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in backend systems development using compiled languages like Java, Go, or C#
  • Strong problem-solving skills in distributed systems environments
  • Experience handling production emergencies and maintaining composure under pressure
  • Proficient in Linux and application performance optimization
  • Versatile with web application stack management
  • Eager to continuously improve technical knowledge
  • Collaborative, curious, and intellectually honest

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product teams to prioritize user perspective in project success
  • Share and uphold best practices with team members
  • Take accountability for actions and maintain a balance between goals and R&D
  • Embody company values in daily operations
  • Stay updated on the latest web engineering practices

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a rapidly growing team environment
  • Engagement in diverse and challenging technical projects
  • Access to a culture of continual learning and collaboration
  • Involvement in meaningful product development impacting global users
  • Support for professional growth and skill enhancement
Full Job Description
The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering, and fastest growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.

The Backup Team delivers essential infrastructure to help our customers in their hour of need - providing the ability to quickly restore a massive, distributed database to any point in time at the click of a button. The Backup Team's mission is to make MongoDB backup more reliable, faster, and also cheaper. This team is responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), the extensive server-side infrastructure (Java) which manages 100s of TB of data and processes billions of operations per day, and the user interface (Javascript) that customers use to manage their backups. Common project themes are performance, scaling, and ease of use.
We're looking for someone who is
  • Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
  • Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment
  • Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises, and secretly finds this a little fun
  • Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits
  • Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application
  • Always striving to expand their knowledge
  • Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest
Responsibilities
  • Work closely with product teams, considering the user's perspective while helping the team achieve success
  • Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts
  • Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development
  • Own our core values and adhere to them in your work, and
  • Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering
Success Measures

A Software Engineer will be successful in this role when they
  • Are open, honest and willing to contribute and collaborate with others
  • Develop confidence in finding their way across the platform
  • Can take responsibility for the planning and execution of a major feature, representing Engineering when working with Product and Design
  • Are willing to learn and contribute to all parts of the stack
  • Are resolute in their approach to problem solving, balancing the needs of their team with the willingness to get to the bottom of issues
MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$126,000-$248,000 USD

About MongoDB

MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. MongoDB is a leading NoSQL database that allows developers to build applications with ease and flexibility. MongoDB is used by many of the world's largest organizations to power their most critical applications. MongoDB is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the globe.
Learn more about MongoDB
Size
3,544 employees
Market Cap
$12.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.9 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+50.1%
Revenue
$590.3 million
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