MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications. Join one of our Clusters and Integrations teams, and help build the core infrastructure that will help MongoDB become a world-class distributed database! On Clusters & Interfaces, you’ll work on some of the hardest, most impactful problems MongoDB is facing today in areas like networking, observability, workload management, and data movement. Recently, we’ve been focusing on strengthening MongoDB’s availability guarantees through improvements in connection management, load shedding, robust scale-out, and availability testing.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core features of a popular database, join us! Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, system architects, and database operators.

This role will be based remotely the United States.

Candidate Profile

5+ years of experience building distributed systems

Solid experience writing and reviewing code in C++

Proficiency in C++. Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality. Bonus for familiarity in Rust!

Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture

Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems, as well as hands-on or academic experience in the domain

Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB

Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as: High performance / low latency networking

Performance tuning

Distributed systems

System observability

System resiliency Success Measures

In your first month, you’ll understand the high-level architecture of MongoDB, dive into the details of your team’s components, and resolve a few bugs

In the first three months, you’ll contribute to the development of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in design reviews for new features

In the first six months, you’ll lead the development of a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team