Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Scalability

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Scalability

Join Cluster Scalability, one of MongoDB's Online Transaction Processing teams, and help build the core infrastructure that makes MongoDB a world-class distributed database. The team builds the infrastructure and tools that let customers scale their workloads past what a single node can handle. We take pride in building clean abstractions over hard distributed systems problems, so users can focus on their data instead of worrying about where it lives or how it's accessed. Our work has a big impact: it solves the hardest data challenges faced by MongoDB's largest customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Cluster Scalability, you'll work on data partitioning, one of the hardest and most impactful problem areas at MongoDB today. You'll collaboratively design and build the distributed machinery that turns independent query-processing and storage nodes into a single, unified database system. Your team’s work will be to build the data-movement and dynamic-scaling features that run on top of it. Current work includes seamless horizontal scaling with minimal tradeoffs, better cluster elasticity and smarter workload execution. You'll solve complex performance problems and design protocols for moving and placing data without disruption. Your work will help the architecture scale reliably to meet customer demand at any volume.

This role can be based remotely in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Cluster Scalability team to design and build distributed database infrastructure.
• Work on data partitioning and related distributed systems challenges.
• Develop distributed machinery for query-processing and storage nodes.
• Build data-movement and dynamic-scaling features.
• Solve complex performance problems and design protocols for data movement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems.
• Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality, written in C++.
• 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.
• Understands modern computer architecture and internals to reason about how specific design choices play out in a system like MongoDB.

We Offer

• Competitive base salary range: $101,000-$273,000 USD.
• Remote work options within the United States.
• Comprehensive benefits package including equity, flexible paid time off, parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, and health benefits offerings.

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.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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