Description
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing team to provide technical direction and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB.
As a Staff Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to teams developing cutting-edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications. You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day. We value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition.
Position Expectations
- Work closely with product management, product engineering, product design peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
- Design, build, and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
- Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews, and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
- Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects
Qualifications
- Strong background in building core components for high-scale compute and data distributed systems
- 8+ years of experience building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale, and an interest in working with Python, Go, and Java
- Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science, and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
- Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
- Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery
- Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
- Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
- Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
- Eager to learn, with a strong technical background