We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team. We are working to make migration and recovery of MongoDB clusters easy, fast, and reliable. Data movement is a key priority for MongoDB and we use our services and tools to migrate customers from on-prem MongoDB to MongoDB's cloud service, MongoDB Atlas. This team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration services such as the Atlas Live Migration service, or our standalone offering, mongosync. These services are critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas. As a Staff Engineer, you will architect new solutions to continually evolving scalability, performance, and usability challenges.

This role can be based out of our Dublin office or remotely in Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the development of key improvements to migration services around performance, reliability, observability, and data verification

• Define the future evolution and vision of MongoDB migrations by working closely with Product Management, Product Design, Analytics, as well as other Engineering teams within the company

• Work with stakeholders to identify business impact of focus areas, translating into the team's roadmap, then partnering with Engineering Leads to execute

• Design, architect, build, and deliver key migration features for our customers

• Improve our codebase, best practices, and design principles

• Coach engineers with various levels of experience to help them deliver successfully and grow professionally

Candidate Profile

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, primarily focused on writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)

• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming

• Familiarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance– experience building databases is a plus

• Experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Has led the launch of new features and maintained them in production with a high level of observability and operational excellence

• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for teams and/or projects

• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills

• Curiosity, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

Success Measures

• In the first month, you understand the high level architecture of MongoDB migration tooling and fixed a few bugs

• In three months, you have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next release of our migration services, and diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues

• In six months, you are leading the development of a new feature and helping to mentor new engineers on the team

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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—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.

Req ID: 4263301225