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The MongoDB Developer Productivity team provides a highly leveraged foundation of shared tools and services that support our product development process. We succeed when MongoDB product and engineering teams are able to deliver the best solutions to our customers through a highly effective software development process.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to research and develop tools and processes to drive significant increases in code quality and development productivity, specifically within the area of performance. We are looking for an individual with deep empathy for engineering teams, who cares strongly about writing high-quality code that solves real end-user problems, and has a drive to improve the practices and processes of MongoDB’s many software engineering teams.

This role can be based out of our Sydney office or remotely in the Australia region.

Our ideal candidate will have

• Meaningful hands-on coding experience in C++, Go, or Python (or related languages)
• Meaningful experience managing and monitoring deployed production systems
• Experience across a breadth of topics including CI/CD systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, CMake, OpenTelemetry, Bazel, and AWS
• Some knowledge of build and/or deployment systems
• Excellent communication skills, with the proven ability to discuss and distill complex topics in interpersonal settings

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing and documenting high-quality software using C++, Python, and Go
• Advocate for improvements to stability, observability, and robustness
• Maintaining and continuously improving existing software
• Promoting a culture of performance engineering within MongoDB by giving presentations, creating documentation, and providing an opinionated user-focused experience in our tools
• Establishing relationships with other software engineers at MongoDB to understand, advocate for, and solve their issues
• Collaborating to provide well-articulated opinions on day-to-day problem solving and long-term goals for the team
• Working with unfamiliar languages, tools, and systems, including estimating and mitigating risks through proof-of-concept work in unfamiliar areas

Success Measures In 1 month

• You will acquire a basic understanding of our tools and systems. You will be capable of addressing simple user inquiries or directing them to the appropriate person
• You will have resolved a few bugs and/or implemented a simple feature

In 3 months

• You will have regular communication with other engineers and effectively represent their interests in team meetings
• You will be able to utilize internal documentation, knowledge management, and source code to resolve complex user inquiries, resolve simple bugs and scope simple features

In 6 months

• You will be able to advocate for new features and bug fixes by proposing specific additions or modifications to our codebases
• You will have tackled a complex bug or feature that required collaboration with individuals outside of the team

In 12 months

• You will have made significant contributions to the team's objectives, both technically through leading the implementation of meaningful projects, and collaboratively by contributing to the projects, features, and bug fixes of others
• You will become an internal subject matter expert in numerous internal systems, possessing a solid understanding of the neighboring systems we interact with on a daily basis

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