Lead Engineer, Service Architecture

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer 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.

Join and be a part of leading the MongoDB Service Architecture team, helping build the core of a distributed database! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication all within a single process, between cooperating distributed processes, and between the database and the operating system. Service Architecture’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, maintaining MongoDB networking and command dispatch systems, improving the programming model, and building low level reusable software components that can be leveraged by other teams working on the database.

Our team currently consists of 17 engineers, half located in New York City and half fully remote. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the performance and robustness of our open-source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall. Recently we’ve worked on introducing support for gRPC, adding mechanisms to better manage system overload, and adding cluster connection health metrics to the MongoDB server.

Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely in the US.

Position Expectations

• Manage a small team of individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Foster a positive and effective team culture
• Balance your time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
• Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule
• Maintain expertise on state of the art software technologies and best practices
• Aid Product Management in navigating difficult tradeoffs in prioritization
• Collaborate with other server engineers, client drivers, cloud services, support, consulting, training, and marketing teams to coordinate changes
• Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to networking, intra/inter-process communication, performance and observability in a large feature-rich C++ codebase
• Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure, robust, well-reasoned industrial-strength software

Success Measures

In three months:

• You've met with all of your team members and are starting to learn their interests, strengths, and areas for development
• You’ll have contributed to a project slated for the next major version of the MongoDB server, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series

In six months:

• We'll be relying on you for code reviews and reviewing the designs for new features
• You have worked with each team member to develop a growth plan tailored to their career goals

In twelve months:

• You’re leading the development of a new major feature
• You have a clear understanding of the longer term roadmap and have integrated a plan to accomplish it with your team at MongoDB
• You have established your role as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally go to you for guidance

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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MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: 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, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.