Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Data Federation (Platforms)

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MongoDB Atlas Data Federation (ADF) is a multi-tenant, cloud-native query processing service that allows users to query data from MongoDB Atlas clusters and cloud object storage using the MongoDB Query Language (MQL).  We're hiring talented Senior Engineers for our Platform  team to help design, build and improve the foundational building blocks underlying Atlas Data Federation. Engineers that join our teams will work on high-leverage projects, including a new Kubernetes based backend deployment architecture, a global resource management framework, new cloud platform integrations, and shared building blocks and backend services enabling data federation and data storage services. Engineers on the team develop highly reliable and scalable services, in a collaborative, growth oriented environment.  

Our team is distributed all across North America and we support office-based and remote work, and align projects with convenient work hours for each time-zone. The ADF team prides itself on building high-quality software using clean abstractions, and lives MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition.  

If you want to be part of a team developing the core technology for a distributed query processing service, join us. Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, business analysts, and data scientists!

This role can be based in our New York City office or remotely in North America.

Successful candidates will have the following qualities

• 3+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native distributed systems
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers and lead projects
• B.Sc / M.Sc in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering highly complex projects in distributed systems or databases

Position Expectations

• Develop a solid understanding of the Atlas Data Federation architecture and implementation
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of the ADF platform infrastructure, testing improvements, new cloud platforms, and shared building blocks and backend services
• Work collaboratively with other engineers to coordinate seamless changes in a feature-rich, large code base
• Work with other teams including teams building client-side drivers, the MongoDB core server, cloud services, and other teams with downstream dependencies  to coordinate changes or contribute to their projects
• Suggest new ideas towards team and project goals and work with team to achieve them

Success Measures

• In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series
• In six months, you’ll have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In twelve months, you’re leading the development of a new major feature and are helping to mentor new engineers on the team

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