Staff Engineer, Storage Engines

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.

The Storage Engines team is building WiredTiger, the open-source storage engine powering MongoDB. WiredTiger employs modern hardware architectures and software algorithms to achieve extraordinary performance for the most intricate applications. This team includes database engineering pioneers with decades of experience who are recognised as deep domain specialists.

Engineering at MongoDB is globally distributed, with a mix of folks being fully remote, hybrid, or in-office. Most of our team calls Sydney home, but we have folks elsewhere in NSW, Victoria, New Zealand, Vancouver, and Boston. We work closely with other teams in Sydney and North America. bringing together different skills and perspectives. Together, we're pushing MongoDB forward to meet the growing needs of our customers.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies great engineering 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.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Sydney for our hybrid working model.

You’re an ideal candidate if:

• You have 10+ years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning highly concurrent and/or distributed C/C++ software systems. Especially if you have worked in C for a number of those years.
• You have a track record as an effective technical leader. You love helping teams be successful at solving vaguely defined problems in iterative and measurable ways. You put the customer first, and don’t hesitate to cross team boundaries in search of the right solution.
• You have a solid grasp of related systems fundamentals, such as cache management, log-based recovery, transactions or performance profiling.
• You’re familiar with highly concurrent systems and concepts such as optimistic and pessimistic concurrency control and lock-free programming.
• You’ve worked on large, highly available, scalable and performant systems such as databases, high frequency trading platforms, cloud storage services, or maybe even Mars rovers.
• You have excellent verbal and written technical communication skills; you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and mentoring junior engineers.
• You enjoy learning new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering.

As a Staff Engineer on the Storage Engines team you will:

• Be directly responsible for delivering on goals which span a 6-18 month timeframe
• Play a key role in defining the roadmap for the next 12 months
• Write well tested, production-ready code in C (our test infrastructure also leverages C++, Python and Javascript).
• Drive improvements to processes and tools to help us more confidently make changes to high risk parts of our codebase
• Use our data warehouse to inform decisions and measure the impact of work the team ships
• Investigate performance regressions and guide the team through making complex changes that have to balance performance against other requirements
• Help cultivate a strong talent bench through interviewing, mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Develop, maintain and apply expertise on cutting edge database and distributed systems research from industry and academia
• Handle (or lead the effort to handle) time-sensitive customer escalations
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives
• Be open to occasional (once a year) travel to the US

Success Measures:

• In the first month:
• You have understood the high level architecture of WiredTiger and fixed a few bugs
• You are starting to develop relationships with key stakeholders across your VPs organisation
• In three months:
• You have diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues
• You have contributed to the development in C of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB
• You are starting to take on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In six months:
• You have started mentoring other engineers on the team
• You are leading the development of a new feature
• You are beginning to involve yourself in planning and roadmapping efforts
• In twelve months:
• You have successfully shipped multiple major contributions to WiredTiger
• You own a department level goal

Benefits:

• 5 weeks annual leave
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for both parents that covers childbirth, adoption, surrogacy and fostering. In your first year with MongoDB this benefit is reduced
• Family forming assistance which covers fertility care, adoption and surrogacy
• Subsidised health & dental insurance for you and your dependents (through Medibank)
• Classpass credits, a Headspace subscription and Vaccination vouchers as part of our broader health and wellness programs
• In-office Lunch (on us) up to 3 days per week

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

 Req ID -1263118567