Senior Software Engineer, Competitive Benchmarking

• 5+ years of experience building, debugging, and improving distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including writing maintainable code, profiling performance, and debugging complex issues
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB architecture, MongoDB Query Language (MQL), and MongoDB performance tuning
• Hands-on experience with performance testing methodologies such as load, stress, latency, or scalability testing
• Experience designing and implementing benchmarking or performance-validation workflows
• Strong coding skills in Python or a similar language, plus the ability to learn new stacks quickly
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one of the three major cloud providers used for this role, AWS, Azure or GCP, including the practical trade-offs involved in running reliable applications at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, Cassandra, or other competing data platforms
• Ability to reason about relational and document data models, distributed systems behavior, and infrastructure bottlenecks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining technical findings to different audiences
• Ability to work with ambiguity, define structure where needed, and operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with CI/CD systems and integrating automated tests into engineering workflows
• Experience creating reusable technical documentation, runbooks, or internal playbooks

Success in this role

In your first 30 days

• Build a clear understanding of the team’s current workloads, tooling, roadmap, and stakeholder landscape
• Complete onboarding and identify the main technical systems, docs, and knowledge gaps relevant to your work
• Start contributing code, review feedback, and execution support on active benchmark efforts

In your first 90 days

• Independently contribute to the design, coding, execution, and analysis of multiple benchmark initiatives
• Improve at least one area of the team’s tooling, documentation, or execution workflow
• Build strong working relationships with key cross-functional partners

In your first 6 months

• Own meaningful benchmark or tooling work from scoping through delivery
• Improve repeatability, clarity, or efficiency in how the team designs, runs, or reports on tests
• Contribute to mentorship, documentation, or process improvements that increase team autonomy

In your first 12 months

• Be a trusted technical contributor across benchmark design, tooling, and analysis
• Influence how the team prioritizes and scales its work
• Expand your scope through technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and deeper ownership of systems and processes

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