Software Engineer 3, Backup

Job description

The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering, and fastest growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, 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'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
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