Description
The Storage Layer Services (SLS) team owns the multi-tenant storage layer that powers Atlas Infinite , the largest architectural change to MongoDB Atlas Database since its launch ten years ago.
We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team as we execute on a multi-year roadmap and rapidly scale our Rust services to handle petabytes of data while improving security, durability, availability, and performance.
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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to Have
- 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)
Success Measures
- In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
- In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project
- In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system