MongoDB Administrator

Expected compensation: 65.00 - 72.00 USD Per Hour

Hire Art is helping a global leader in AI development hire a talented Mongo

DB Administrator to join its team.

We’re looking for an Austin-based Mongo

DB database engineer with deep experience building and scaling both Mongo database platforms supporting distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and machine learning infrastructure. You have a growth mindset and are comfortable learning new technologies.

• Build and mature Mongo
  
  DB-based database foundations, including operations, platform lifecycle, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Improve the company's high engineering standards, tooling, and process.
• Work directly with the engineering teams to create backend database solutions to meet their challenging data and security needs.
• Work with the security team on security compliance, pen tests, and mitigations that improve security across the company.
• Build systems capable of handling billions of documents, making them available to the workforce and the internal teams with high availability.

• Experience in the following:
  • Design, installation, and configuration of multi-node Mongo
    
    DB sharded clusters and replica sets running on AWS EC2
  • Adding and removing replica and shard nodes in Mongo
    
    DB clusters as needed
  • Identifying appropriate shard keys and ensuring even distribution of data across shards.
  • Converting non-sharded replica sets to sharded clusters due to data size growth and query optimization
  • Proper query planning and performance tuning, as well as experience with Mongoose ODM
  • Mongo Dump and Mongo Restore
• Knowledge about certificate-based x509 authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Experience managing on prem/self hosted Mongo
  
  DB instance
• Extensive knowledge of Mongo replication architecture and change stream

• PTO
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Employer (Hire Art) Subsidized healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account for healthcare-related costs
• Hire Art covers all costs for short and long-term disability and life insurance
• 401k package

This is a full-time, ongoing contract position, staffed via Hire Art and evaluated for renewal every 6 months. It is remote and available to candidates local to Austin, TX.

Hire Art values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or employ corp-to-corp.