Software Engineer 3, Private Cloud Backup

The Enterprise Advanced team is a diverse group of individuals across Europe and India, who develop software to run MongoDB on any type of infrastructure at global scale. Our software and services allow users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in minutes. The main focus of this department is to adapt our software to manage MongoDB clusters which are deployed in data centers or private and hybrid cloud platforms.

The Backup Team delivers essential infrastructure to help our customers in their hour of need - providing the ability to quickly restore a massive, distributed database to any point in time at the click of a button. The Backup Team’s mission is to make MongoDB backup more reliable, faster, and also cheaper. This team is responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), the extensive server-side infrastructure (Java) which manages 100s of TB of data and processes billions of operations per day, and the user interface (Javascript) that customers use to manage their backups. Common project themes are performance, scaling, and ease of use.

We're looking for someone who is

Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)

Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment

Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises, and secretly finds this a little fun

Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits

Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application

Always striving to expand their knowledge

Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest

Responsibilities

Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success

Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts

Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development

Own our core values and