Senior Software Engineer, Public Backup

The Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage the company at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for Atlas, our database-as-a-service offering, and fastest-growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed clusters in just minutes.

The Backup Team delivers essential infrastructure to help our customers in their hour of need – providing the ability to quickly restore a massive, distributed database to any point in time at the click of a button. The Backup Team’s mission is to make the company backup more reliable, faster, and cheaper. This team is responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), the extensive server-side infrastructure (Java) which manages 100s of TB of data and processes billions of operations per day, and the user interface (JavaScript) that customers use to manage their backups.

• Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment
• Cool under pressure – has wrangled production crises and secretly finds this a little fun
• Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits
• Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application
• Always striving to expand their knowledge
• Curious, collaborative, and intellectually honest

• Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success
• Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts
• Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development
• Own our core values and adhere to them in your work
• Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering

A Software Engineer will be successful in this role when they

• Are open, honest, and willing to contribute and collaborate with others
• Develop confidence in finding their way across the platform
• Can take responsibility for the planning and execution of a major feature, representing Engineering when working with Product and Design
• Are willing to learn and contribute to all parts of the stack
• Are resolute in their approach to problem solving, balancing the needs of their team with the willingness to get to the bottom of issues

Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully‑paid gender‑neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender‑inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.

-based candidates.

The company’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $126,000 — $248,000 USD

The company, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

The company is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.