MongoDB · 6 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Workload Scheduling

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$118K/yr - $231K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Write production-ready database code in C++, Rust, or possibly another low-level language

Write unit tests and integration tests in C++, Rust, Javascript, and Python to demonstrate application correctness

Investigate the performance characteristics of the server and write performance regression tests

Build and optimize workload management primitives such as operation queueing/ticketing mechanisms as well as load-shedding

Implement and continuously improve server workload policies to schedule, prioritize, and make decisions about incoming and in-progress operations to maximize goodput while under system load

Build a process external to the core server that monitors and tunes policies of a MongoDB server.

Improve the workload and system observability/diagnostics of the core server.

Diagnose performance and correctness test failures, identify bugs and/or deficiencies in existing code, and fix them

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Handle customer escalations

Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives

Mentor new and junior engineers on the team, participating in helping facilitate technical growth in the team

Lead projects through writing scope and technical design documents, and be able to appropriately estimate and plan out execution streams across contributors

Qualification

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C++RustDistributed systemsPerformance tuningMulti-threaded programmingPerformance profilingSoftware debuggingUnit testingIntegration testingObservabilityJavascriptPythonFault toleranceTechnical communicationMentoring

Required

Minimum 5 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent low-level software systems.

Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling

Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers and interns.

Passion for learning new things in the domains of software engineering, distributed systems, and performance.

Experience with writing software to observe and mitigate overload scenarios for highly performant and concurrent systems