About the company
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities
- Innovate in the area of flexible schema databases. Help us build a world-class query optimization system
- Research state-of-the art query systems to inform our design
- Leverage deep knowledge of the strength and weakness of the product and of industry trends to provide technical vision and direction
- Set initiative level strategy, architect plans, and lead the team towards successful execution
- Advise and partner with management on roadmap decisions, processes, and architectural designs
- Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to query performance and robustness, query language enhancements, diagnostics, 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
- Influence and grow team members through active mentoring, coaching and leading by example
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data management systems, distributed systems, or large-scale backend engineering
- Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality
- Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
- Experience with large code bases written in C++ or another systems programming language
- A strong foundation in core database internals is essential
- Experience in query optimization is a massive bonus, but not a prerequisite
- Strong backgrounds in compilers, language transpilers, or distributed storage systems are also welcome
Conditions
- This role can be based out of our US offices or remotely in the North America region
- We support office-based and remote work and align projects with convenient work hours for each time zone
- We have a presence across the US and Europe including New York, Dublin, Seattle, Palo Alto, and Chicago