MongoDB

Software Engineer 3 - Query Optimization

MongoDB$106K — $209K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in data intensive environments
  • Hands-on experience building industrial-strength software
  • Solid computer science fundamentals with strengths in data structures and algorithms
  • Experience with large code bases
  • B.Sc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Plus: experience in developing database systems
  • Interest in database query engines or advanced degrees in the domain is a bonus

Responsibilities

  • Enhance and refine current capabilities of the MongoDB query engine
  • Design, implement, and support new features for query performance and diagnostics
  • Coordinate changes in a complex, feature-rich codebase with other engineers
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including support, education, and marketing

Benefits

  • Equity participation options
  • Flexible paid time off policy
  • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
  • Fertility and adoption assistance
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Mental health counseling services
  • Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
Full Job Description
Join the MongoDB Server Query team, and help us build a world-class distributed open source query engine. Our team plays a crucial role in the experience and performance of data processing. We are responsible for the MongoDB Query Language and the lifecycle of each query, from parsing to optimization to plan selection and finally execution. This also includes our geospatial search and update subsystems.

Our global team is growing fast. In North America, we have a presence across the US and Canada including New York, West Coast, Toronto. In Europe, we have a presence in Dublin, Germany, France, Netherlands, UK, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy currently. We support office-based and remote work and align projects with convenient work hours for each time-zone.

We have tons of interesting problems to solve with direct impact on users for transactional, time-series and analytical workloads. We need your help to design and build the heart of a distributed, flexible schema, document database.

This role can be based out of our New York City, Atlanta, Boston offices or remotely in the East Coast region.
Candidate Profile
  • 3+ years of experience in data intensive environments
  • Hands-on experience building industrial-strength software
  • Solid computer science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
  • Experience with large code bases
  • B.Sc in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in developing database systems is a plus
  • Interest in the theory and practice of database query engines. Hands-on experience or M.Sc./Ph.D in the domain is a plus
Position Expectations
  • Understand and improve current functionality of the MongoDB query engine
  • Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to query performance and robustness, query language enhancements, diagnostics for query performance problems, and integration with other products and tools
  • Work with other engineers to coordinate seamless changes in a feature-rich, large code base
  • Work with other teams including client drivers, cloud services, enterprise tools, support, consulting, education, and marketing to coordinate changes or contribute to their projects
Success Measures
  • In three months you'll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series
  • In six months, you'll have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
  • In twelve months, you're making significant contributions to the development of a new major features


MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below. 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. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

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

$106,000-$209,000 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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