# Staff Engineer

**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** Sydney, Australia
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Rust, C, C++, MongoDB, Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Concurrency, Asynchronous Services, Performance Profiling, Observability, Transactions, Log-Based Recovery, Cache Management, Replicated State Machines, Cloud Storage
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads the design and delivery of performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services for MongoDB’s cloud architecture. The role requires 10+ years of experience with concurrent or distributed systems, systems programming, technical leadership, and performance optimization.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Deliver goals spanning a 6–18 month timeframe and help define the 12-month roadmap.
- Write well-tested, production-ready Rust code.
- Improve processes and tools for making sound decisions and safely changing high-risk code.
- Use observability data to inform decisions and measure shipped work.
- Investigate performance regressions and guide complex performance-versus-requirements tradeoffs.
- Champion operational excellence and participate in a one-week-in-six on-call rotation.
- Interview, mentor, and share knowledge with engineers.
- Develop and apply expertise in database and distributed-systems research.
- Handle or lead responses to time-sensitive customer escalations.
- Propose and advocate for high-impact cross-team projects and technical strategies.
- Drive consensus on complex, cross-team issues by framing tradeoffs and guiding durable decisions.
- Travel to the United States occasionally, approximately once per year.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience programming, debugging, and performance-tuning highly concurrent and/or distributed systems.
- Significant experience with a systems language such as C, C++, or Rust.
- A track record of effective technical leadership and solving ambiguous problems iteratively and measurably.
- Strong understanding of systems fundamentals, including cache management, log-based recovery, transactions, or performance profiling.
- Experience reasoning about highly concurrent, asynchronous services, including backpressure, tail latency, and replicated-state-machine failure modes.
- Experience with large, highly available, scalable, and performant systems such as databases, high-frequency trading platforms, cloud storage services, or similar systems.
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills.
- Willingness to collaborate with colleagues, mentor junior engineers, and learn new computer science and software engineering concepts.
- Candidates must be based in Sydney for the hybrid working model.

## Benefits

- 5 weeks of annual leave.
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave for both parents, covering childbirth, adoption, surrogacy, and fostering; reduced during the first year.
- Family-forming assistance covering fertility care, adoption, and surrogacy.
- Subsidized health and dental insurance for employees and dependents through Medibank.
- ClassPass credits, a Headspace subscription, and vaccination vouchers.
- In-office lunch up to 3 days per week.

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