Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Search Query

Atlas Search is a growing cloud service that allows users to execute complex search queries using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users are free to focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. 

Our team is building a cloud-based distributed systems software responsible for the core components of search including: data ingestion, performance, query language and execution, and aggregation. Our product is being adopted quickly and there are many interesting projects you can help with!

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in San Francisco for our hybrid working model.

• Proficient in modern programming languages and techniques
• Eager to impact and envision the technological future of a complex system
• Experienced in developing distributed systems, cloud services and SaaS products
• Experienced in designing and maintaining search platforms or distributed databases is preferred but not required
• Experienced in debugging and profiling multithreaded JVM applications is preferred but not required

• Build and design our integrated search platform, written in Java
• Contribute to two leading open source platforms, MongoDB and Lucene
• Participate in product and design discussions
• Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our code and software development processes
• Collaborate with other teams including cloud services, database, enterprise tools, drivers and support to coordinate changes or contribute to their projects

• In 3 months, you'll contribute to the improvement of our core "mongoT" repository
• In 6 months, you'll be working on features such as query features or platform improvements
• In 12 months, you'll be building POCs, designing new features, and collaborating with other teams from across the company on complex projects

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Req ID: 3263251461