The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

Atlas Search is a new cloud service that allows users to execute complex search queries using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users are free to focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale.

Our team is building a cloud-based distributed systems software responsible for the entire lifecycle of search including: data ingestion, partitioning, performance, availability, query language and aggregation. Our product is being adopted quickly and there are many interesting projects you can help with.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA - hybrid in office 3 days a week.

Ideally you will be:

• Proficient in modern programming languages and techniques
• Eager to impact and envision the technological future of a complex system
• Experienced in developing distributed systems, cloud services and SaaS products
• Experienced in designing and maintaining search platforms or distributed databases is preferred but not required
• Experienced in debugging and profiling multithreaded JVM applications and distributed applications is preferred but not required

You would get to:

• Build and design our integrated search platform, written in Java
• Contribute to two leading open source platforms, MongoDB and Lucene
• Participate in product and architecture discussions
• Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our code and software development processes
• Collaborate with other teams including cloud services, database, enterprise tools, drivers and support to coordinate changes or contribute to their projects

Success Measures:

• In 3 months, you’ll contribute to the improvement of our core "mongot" and Mongo Management Service repos
• In 6 months, you’ll be working on features to build out new infrastructure for Atlas Search
• In 12 months, you’ll be building POCs, designing new features, and collaborating with other Cloud and Server teams on complex projects

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