Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MongoDB is a company that empowers customers and employees to innovate at market speed. They are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join their Storage Layer Services team to design and operate multi-tenant distributed storage services that enhance the Atlas storage stack and support customer workloads.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances
- Solve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions
- Contribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements
- Lead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates
- Partner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence
- Experience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++
- Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g. time series metrics, dashboards)
- Experience with distributed systems
- Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues
- Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity
- Demonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers
- Experience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code
- Experience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing
- Experience building scalable cloud services on multiple cloud provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability systems (hands-on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus)
Benefits
- Equity
- Participation in the employee stock purchase program
- Flexible paid time off
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- 401(k) plan
- Mental health counseling
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Health benefits offerings
Company Overview
MongoDB is a global database software company offering NoSQL, cloud database, and AI-ready data platform. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.mongodb.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
MongoDB has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 15 in 2026, 153 in 2025, 149 in 2024, 133 in 2023, 79 in 2022, 51 in 2021, 30 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.