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Senior Software Engineer, Storage Layer Services

126k – 248kNew York, NYHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Senior engineer building and operating multi-tenant cloud storage control plane services for MongoDB Atlas. Requires 5+ years experience with Rust/C++, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and operational excellence.

About the role

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Nice-to-haves

  • 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).
Skills
RustC++KubernetesDistributed SystemsObservabilityCloud ServicesAWSAzureGoogle CloudChaos Engineering
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