Role details
- We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing team to provide technical direction and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB.
- As a Staff Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to teams developing cutting edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications.
- You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product.
- MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day.
- We value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition.
- This role can be based anywhere in Canada in the Eastern Time zone.
Position Expectations
- Work closely with product management, product engineering, product design peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
- Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
- Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
- Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects
Qualifications
- Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
- 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
- Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
- Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
- Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery.
- Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
- Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
- Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
- Eager to learn, with a strong technical background
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 AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, 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.
- AI is used to review applications based on job-related criteria and does not replace human decision-making. The hiring team decide who moves forward.
- 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, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings.
- Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.
- MongoDB's base salary range for this role in Canada is:
$187,000 — $260,000 CAD