Staff Engineer

As a Staff Engineer on the Storage Layer Services team you will:

• Be directly responsible for delivering on goals which span a 6-18 month timeframe
• Play a key role in defining the roadmap for the next 12 months
• Write well tested, production-ready code in rust
• Act as a force multiplier across the organization, drive improvements to processes and tools to help us more confidently make sound decisions and changes to high risk parts of our codebase
• Use our observability stack to inform decisions and measure the impact of work the team ships
• Investigate performance regressions and guide the team through making complex changes that have to balance performance against other requirements
• Champion a culture of operational excellence, and be part of a one-week-in-6 on-call rotation
• Help cultivate a strong talent bench through interviewing, mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Develop, maintain and apply expertise on cutting edge database and distributed systems research from industry and academia
• Handle (or lead the effort to handle) time-sensitive customer escalations
• Propose and advocate for high-impact projects across teams, connecting customer needs and company goals to a clear technical strategy for large initiatives
• Drive consensus on abstract, complex issues affecting multiple teams by framing tradeoffs, engaging stakeholders, and guiding decisions to durable outcomes
• Be open to occasional (once a year) travel to the US

Success Measures:

• In the first month:
• You have understood the high level architecture of SLS and fixed a few bugs
• You are starting to develop relationships with key stakeholders across your VPs organisation
• In three months:
• You have diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues
• You have contributed to the development of SLS and shipped your first feature to production
• You are starting to take on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In six months:
• You have started mentoring other engineers on the team
• You are leading the development of a new feature
• You are beginning to involve yourself in planning and roadmapping efforts
• In twelve months:
• You have successfully shipped multiple major contributions
• You own a department level goal

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

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!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Requisition ID 2273498778