Remote Mechanical Engineer — AWS & MongoDB Performance Expert

Performance Consulting Group; Brooklyn Park (MN); Remote; USD 112,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Paid sabbaticals

Mentoring program

Job summary

Performance Consulting Group is seeking a Mechanical Engineer with strong AWS and distributed systems skills to work remotely, with occasional collaboration from Brooklyn Park, MN. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting and rapid problem solving.

You will trace bugs across AWS services, pair-program on MongoDB edge cases, and ship fixes the same day they are reported. The team values balance, mentorship, and pragmatic decision-making.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of AWS experience and hands-on expertise.
• Ability to trace bugs across multiple AWS services.
• Strong judgment on when to act vs. wait.
• Senior-level delegation and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Trace a metrics-driven tech bug across three AWS services to the one bad line.
• Pair-program tricky MongoDB edge cases with engineers across Brooklyn Park, MN.
• Ship MongoDB fixes to Performance Consulting Group customers in Brooklyn Park, MN the same day they report them.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Translate entrepreneurial business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.
• Tune Collaboration queries until the MN database stops timing out under load.

Skills

AWS (6+ years)

Distributed systems

Remote collaboration

Proactive judgment

Technical delegation

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

Performance Consulting Group is seeking a Mechanical Engineer with strong AWS and distributed systems skills to work remotely, with occasional collaboration from Brooklyn Park, MN. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting and rapid problem solving.

You will trace bugs across AWS services, pair-program on MongoDB edge cases, and ship fixes the same day they are reported. The team values balance, mentorship, and pragmatic decision-making.