Job Description

MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere-on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it's no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.
Our R&D Productivity Group
MongoDB is a complex, mission-critical database server that operates in a wide range of environments. Customers rely on its ability to meet high standards for Performance, Security, Availability, and Correctness. Achieving these standards requires robust developer tooling at every layer of the stack, from the underlying storage engine to the tools supporting our Atlas cloud offering. The Developer Productivity organization plays a vital role in enabling MongoDB engineers to ship products that meet our high company standards.
Within Developer Productivity, the Last Mile team works closely with teams across the company to identify challenges and solve them in ways that delight other development teams. Our engineers collaborate with stakeholders delivering critical features, pinpoint gaps in core infrastructure, and implement solutions that benefit all development teams. This role requires a deep empathy for stakeholders, a strong understanding of business impact, and a willingness to dive into the entire breadth of our tooling. This is a unique opportunity to drive broad impact on both the business and the daily workflows of teams throughout MongoDB.
This role can be based out of our Toronto office or remotely in the Ontario region.
The ideal candidate should

• Have 4+ years of experience working on software or software systems
• Have a strong customer focus, with the ability to identify and understand the core challenges customers face, even when they are not clearly expressed
• Demonstrate the ability to quickly learn, adapt to, and excel with new technologies, frameworks, and tools in dynamic environments
• Have experience working in Python
• Have experience working with compiled languages (this team interacts with, but does not write, C++ and Go code)
• Have experience designing and building tools to be used by other developers, including web based tools, APIs, and/or command line tools
• Have experience shipping systems in a Cloud environment such as Kubernetes and AWS or similar, and understanding concepts such as provisioning and deployment

Expectations

• Collaborate with teams across the organization to understand their most pressing challenges and create solutions that address their needs
• Develop a broad, high level understanding of core systems used to build MongoDB products, and be able to help navigate and resolve issues that span across multiple teams
• Build tools to use across the development lifecycle to help teams work faster and ship higher quality products
• Provide internal support for our systems, answering questions and addressing technical issues as they arise
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their technical growth, professional development, and confidence in solving complex problems

Success
Three Months
After three months, you will have made contributions to in-progress software development projects, including providing feedback and input to design changes while the project is in progress. You will be able to reliably work on small features and bugs, and medium features in areas you have worked on. You will be in discussions about next steps for larger projects to carry out in the following quarter.
Six Months
You will have led or been a major contributor on one or more substantial development projects. You will be regularly suggesting and evaluating large and small projects. You will be a subject matter expert across some of our systems, and will be able to answer questions about how they perform and operate.
One Year
You will regularly be leading or making major contributions to technical projects that have a substantial impact on our ability to reliably deliver a good experience for the developers that use our products at MongoDB. You will be a strong technical resource across all of our systems, and will be able to provide support and guidance regarding technical direction. You will be responsible for mentoring newer and more junior members of the team.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. , we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. , 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: 3263246842

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