MongoDB · 8 hours ago
Lead Engineer, Online Archive Storage Systems
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $270K/yr
5+ years expMongoDB is a leader in database technology, empowering innovators to disrupt industries with their unified database platform. The Lead Engineer for the Atlas Data Federation and Archiving Storage Systems team will manage a group of engineers to develop next-generation archival infrastructure while providing technical leadership and mentoring.
Cloud ComputingDatabaseOpen SourceSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead a team of 5-8 engineers (currently 6) building the next generation of MongoDB's archival infrastructure
Be a hands-on technical leader, with significant IC time spanning coding, architecture, and technical reviews
Mentor and guide your team members, fostering their technical growth and career development
Collaborate with product management and peers on the archival product roadmap
Drive incident response and postmortems for production storage systems
Qualification
Required
Experience leading engineering teams building and operating production systems
5+ years software engineering experience, primarily in backend/distributed systems
Comfort with 24/7 on-call rotation responsibilities
Preferred
Hands-on experience with petabyte-scale data infrastructure or storage systems
Experience building team consensus on architectural decisions across multiple engineering orgs
Production Go or similar systems language experience
Familiarity with cloud storage primitives (S3, GCS, Azure Blob)
Come from adjacent domains (databases, data processing, cloud infrastructure) and want to dive deep into storage
Have strong fundamentals but haven't worked at this specific scale yet
Bring diverse technical backgrounds that challenge our assumptions
Benefits
Equity
Participation in the employee stock purchase program
Flexible paid time off
20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
Fertility and adoption assistance
401(k) plan
Mental health counseling
Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
Health benefits offerings
Company
MongoDB
MongoDB is a next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$311MKey Investors
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2018-03-06Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Jim Scharf
Chief Technology Officer
Ronnen Miller
SVP, Global Technical Services
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