Sr. Software Engineer - Go/MongoDB
Join a globally distributed engineering team building open-source database tools that help organizations manage data replication, backup, and recovery at scale. In this senior role, you will contribute to the development of high-performance, production-grade solutions for MongoDB environments, solving complex challenges around distributed systems, data consistency, and fault tolerance. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers in a transparent, open-source culture where your contributions are visible to the wider community. This position offers significant technical ownership, opportunities to influence product direction, and the chance to work on technologies used by organizations worldwide. If you're passionate about Go, distributed databases, and scalable infrastructure, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and enhance core features for distributed MongoDB replication, backup, and recovery tools using Go.
- Build and optimize replication engines that support data synchronization, change streams, resumability, and high availability across replica sets and sharded clusters.
- Improve system resilience by implementing fault-tolerant mechanisms for network interruptions, failovers, and recovery scenarios.
- Develop scalable solutions for backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery across complex MongoDB deployments.
- Enhance CLI tools, HTTP APIs, logging, metrics, and observability features to improve operational visibility and user experience.
- Optimize application performance, concurrency, resource utilization, and throughput for large-scale production environments.
- Write automated tests, participate in code reviews, and contribute to release quality through CI/CD pipelines and security best practices.
- Collaborate openly through GitHub, pull requests, issue tracking, and community discussions while contributing to open-source projects.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package.
- Equity incentive program.
- Fully remote, globally distributed work environment.
- Flexible working hours and strong work-life balance.
- Generous paid time off programs.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility.
- Company-provided equipment for your home office.
- Career development budget covering external training, certifications, and conferences.
- Connectivity allowance for remote work.
- Well-being initiatives, team-building programs, and volunteer opportunities.
- Inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on open-source innovation.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience developing production applications in Go (Golang).
- Solid understanding of concurrency concepts, including goroutines, channels, worker pools, context management, and synchronization.
- Experience designing or maintaining distributed systems with knowledge of data consistency, idempotency, ordering, and fault tolerance.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB, including replica sets, sharding, change streams, oplog management, and large-scale deployments.
- Experience building command-line applications, REST or HTTP APIs, and implementing structured logging and monitoring solutions.
- Strong testing mindset with experience writing reliable automated tests and maintaining software quality.
- Familiarity with Git workflows, code reviews, and collaborative open-source development practices.
- Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently in a remote environment.
- Experience with backup and recovery solutions, CDC pipelines, ETL, Prometheus, cloud object storage, CI/CD tooling, vulnerability scanning, or packaging technologies is considered an advantage.
