Staff Engineer, Distributed Systems

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The Storage Engines team is building WiredTiger, a cutting-edge open-source storage engine. WiredTiger employs modern hardware architectures and software algorithms to achieve extraordinary performance for the most intricate applications. This team’s role is to maintain a pluggable protocol for MongoDB storage engines, and provide a comprehensive framework for managing concurrent, transactional access to data stored within a MongoDB database instance. Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. As a team member, you will contribute to crafting and maintaining the nexus of the different server components, connecting its query system and distributed replication system to its underlying storage engines. Ongoing work includes improvements to our transaction management, scaling the code base, and improving resilience and availability for the server. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Sydney for our hybrid working model. Candidate Profile Experience with building industrial-strength software projects with a large user base, robust designs, a high level of code quality, and collaborative software development processes Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture Interest in the theory and practice of database internals At least 5 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems Position Expectations Ship measurable improvements to the product through architecting, coding and leading projects Collaborate with and contribute to other engineers’ projects to ensure their success i

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