Senior Platforms Software Engineer - Cloud Insights & Telemetry - MongoDB

​​The database market is massive (the IDC estimates it to be $89B+ by 2024!) and MongoDB is at the head of its disruption. The MongoDB community is transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern 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.

The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering and fastest growing product which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.

We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our Insights and Telemetry (InTel) Team within Cloud Platforms. The Cloud InTel Team is responsible for helping our users understand the health and performance of their MongoDB deployments and provide guidance on how to improve performance. The InTel Team works on a variety of APIs and customer-facing UIs as well as internal data pipelines to accomplish this goal, all while maintaining the ingestion of 10+ billion data points per day to back these tools.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City, NY for our hybrid working model.

We're looking for someone who

• Enjoys collaboration and being part of a team
• Is approachable, curious, and intellectually honest
• Has written backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Is a backend engineer with a willingness to take on occasional frontend tasks or a full-stack developer with a bias towards backend
• Has experience with the design and architecture of a modern, scalable web application
• Would enjoy chasing down difficult problems in a distributed environment
• Always strives to expand their knowledge

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with or interest in metrics collection tools, like Prometheus, Datadog, or New Relic
• Experience writing efficient data models and queries to write and read from large scale datasets (TB+)
• Knowledge of database internals and tuning mechanisms, particularly indexing
• Previous work in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, particularly maintaining an ecosystem of dependencies

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and learn from team members about best practices and core concepts
• Own our core values and adhere to them in your work
• Write code across a stack of Java, Go, and Javascript/Typescript
• Maintain a balance between delivering software, and performing research and development
• Assist in maintaining production systems and debugging live issues

Success Measures

A Software Engineer will be successful in this role when they

• Are open, honest and happy to to contribute and collaborate with others
• Build domain knowledge of our systems and use that knowledge to diagnose issues and teach others
• Develop and lead software projects that help our users maintain and understand their MongoDB deployments
• Are willing to learn and contribute to all parts of the stack
• Represent Engineering while working with Product and Design
• Solve problems with context in mind, balancing the needs of their team with the desire to get to the bottom of issues

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!

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