Lead Engineer, Atlas Backup

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We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join the MongoDB Cloud Atlas Backup Team. MongoDB Atlas is our database as a service offering. It allows customers to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. 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 are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City.

We're looking for someone who

• Has 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring an engineering team
• Has 5+ years of experience building modern, scalable web applications
• Has written backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment
• Always strives to expand their knowledge
• Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product, design, other Cloud team leaders and all of the engineers on your team to collectively build features that our customers love
• Be a mentor and take pride in advancing the knowledge and careers of your team by providing frequent intellectual honesty and more structured semi-annual growth conversations.
• Stay up to date on the latest advancements in Cloud computing features to bring them to Atlas
• Would enjoy chasing down difficult problems in a distributed environment

Success Measures

A Lead Engineer will be successful in this role when they

• Are open, honest and willing to contribute and collaborate with others
• Develop confidence in finding their way across the platform
• Can take responsibility for the planning and execution of multiple major features in parallel, through the scoping and spec’ing process
• Are resolute in their approach to problem-solving, balancing the needs of their team with the willingness to get to the bottom of issues

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