Lead Engineer

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 MongoDB Storage Execution team’s mission is to research and develop new algorithms for storing data, maintain a pluggable protocol for MongoDB storage engines, and provide a comprehensive framework for managing concurrent, transactional access to data stored locally within a MongoDB database instance.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. As a team member, you will contribute to crafting and maintaining the nexus of the different server components, connecting its query system and distributed replication system to its underlying storage engines. Ongoing work includes improvements to support time series data, transaction management, new indexing algorithms, and implementations for admission control and flow control for the server.

This role can be based out of a MongoDB office or remotely in Canada.

Position Expectations

• Manage a small team of individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Foster a positive and effective team culture
• Balance your time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
• Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule
• Maintain expertise on state of the art software technologies and best practices
• Aid Product Management in navigating difficult tradeoffs in prioritization
• Collaborate with other server engineers, client drivers, cloud services, support, consulting, training, and marketing teams to coordinate changes
• Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to storage, intra/inter-process communication, performance, scalability and observability in a large feature-rich C++ codebase
• Experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems
• Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure, robust, well-reasoned industrial-strength software

Success Measures

In three months:

• You’ve met with all of your team members and are starting to learn their interests, strengths, and areas for development
• You’ll have contributed to a project slated for the next major version of the MongoDB server, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series

In six months:

• We’ll be relying on you for code reviews and reviewing the designs for new features
• You have worked with each team member to develop a growth plan tailored to their career goals

In twelve months

• You’re leading the development of a new major feature
• You have a clear understanding of the longer term roadmap and have integrated a plan to accomplish it with your team at MongoDB
• You have established your role as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally go to you for guidance

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.