Senior Software Engineer, Cluster to Cluster Synchronization

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

The Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team is working to make migrations, backups, and disaster recovery of MongoDB clusters easy and reliable. Our main focus is mongosync, a tool to synchronize two MongoDB clusters. This tool is a top priority for the company, and is used to migrate customers from on-prem MongoDB to MongoDB's cloud service, MongoDB Atlas.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that’s creating a high-performance distributed service for syncing databases, this is the team for you! This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely in North America.

Successful candidates will have the following qualities

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength software, particularly distributed systems or databases.
• Familiarity with databases or building core components for data processing systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems such as data replication, distributed transactions, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience in at least one compiled language, and interest in working with Go.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Curiosity, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering.

You'll be on the team responsible for

• Building mongosync, a database migration and syncing tool. This tool is heavily used by MongoDB Atlas (our Database-as-a-Service), as well as by on-prem customers.
• Maintaining mongomirror, an older tool that powers migrations into MongoDB Atlas.
• Developing the MongoDB Database Tools, a set of CLI utilities for working with a MongoDB deployment. It includes tools for importing, exporting, and diagnostics.

Success Measures

• In three months you’ll have learned about how MongoDB and mongosync works. You’ll have contributed to an ongoing project and fixed a few bugs in existing code.
• In six months, you’ll be reviewing code and new feature designs. You're involved in the design and implementation of a major project, and leading development of smaller features.
• In twelve months, you’re leading the design and development of major new features and are helping to mentor new engineers on the team. You have strong familiarity with the products the team owns and are able to work across the codebase.

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!

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