Senior Software Engineer, Storage Layer Services | MongoDB

The Briefed; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Parental leave

Health benefits

Mental health support

Job summary

MongoDB is re-architecting its cloud storage layer and seeking an experienced engineer to design, build, and operate elastic, multi-tenant storage services for Atlas.

You will lead critical projects, ensure high availability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the database, cloud, and infrastructure groups.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence.
• Experience with large backend or compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate control plane services for an elastic, multi-tenant storage layer serving thousands of database instances.
• Maintain high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions.
• Contribute to operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements.
• Lead complex technical projects from planning through deployment, with clear stakeholder updates.
• Partner with database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams and project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment.

Skills

Rust/C/C++

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Observability

Database internals

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer, at the heart of its next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team builds performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that improve today’s Atlas storage stack and let more customer workloads run efficiently. You will join as the team executes a multi-year roadmap and prepares to launch and rapidly scale services that handle petabytes of data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate control plane services for an elastic, multi-tenant storage layer serving thousands of database instances
• Maintain high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions
• Contribute to operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements
• Lead complex technical projects from planning through deployment, with clear stakeholder updates
• Partner with database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams and project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence
• Experience with large backend or compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++
• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g., time series metrics, dashboards)
• Experience with distributed systems
• Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity
• Demonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers

Skills

Technical Skills

• Rust or C/C++
• Kubernetes and containerization
• Distributed systems and multi-tenant cloud services
• Observability (metrics, dashboards)
• Database internals and data processing systems

Soft Skills

• Clear technical communication
• Collaboration across teams
• Mentoring
• Time management and realistic project estimation
• Customer focus

Nice to Have

• Experience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code
• Experience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing
• Experience building scalable cloud services on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Interest in high-availability systems (hands-on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus)

Job Details

• Location: New York City (hybrid) or remote within North America
• Work Mode: Hybrid (NYC office) or Remote (North America)
• Salary: $101,000 - $273,000 USD base (varies by skills, experience, qualifications, and location)

Success Measures

• 3 months: Shipped code into production and worked with the team on tough problems
• 6 months: Contributed to a large project
• 12 months: Designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system

Benefits

(Applicable to US-based candidates)

• Equity and employee stock purchase program
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks of fully paid, gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Health benefits, including transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage