We seek a talented and dynamic senior Go software engineer to join its software development team. You will be crucial in designing, developing, and optimizing new Backup for MongoDB features. You will also collaborate closely with the team building Server for MongoDB and other teams focused on enhancing the value of Backup for MongoDB. We have big ambitions for bringing innovative enterprise-grade functionality to the MongoDB community and are looking for the right person to bring energy and optimism to the team!
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a geographically distributed team to design and implement new features that extend Backup for MongoDB’s core functionality.
- Analyze and enhance the performance of Backup for MongoDB by optimizing backup processes, managing high-throughput data transfers, and debugging performance bottlenecks related to concurrency, I/O operations, and resource consumption (memory, CPU, network)
- Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality software. Engage with the broader MongoDB open-source community by submitting and reviewing pull requests (PRs) and addressing issues the community raises.
- Work closely with product managers, QA teams, and community contributors to shape PSMDB’s roadmap and prioritize features that bring the most outstanding value.
- Build robust and resilient database solutions focusing on ensuring data integrity, fault tolerance, and high availability across distributed systems.
- Contribute to upstream projects we leverage to bring our solutions to the community.
- Serve as a mentor to junior developers, guiding best practices in software design, coding, testing, and debugging, particularly in large-scale distributed database systems.
- Blog, present, and evangelize our software to help increase adoption and keep our thriving community growing
- Engage with other departments to ensure we’re delivering value-driven solutions.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in Go development and object-oriented design
- Strong understanding of NoSQL databases and large-scale distributed systems, preferably MongoDB
- Strong knowledge of compression and encryption algorithms and techniques
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis
- Experience with high concurrency threading models, atomics, and locking primitives
- Knowledge of various programming and scripting languages such as BASH, Perl, and Python
- Working with tools like profiler, gdb and strace for debugging
Additional Experience Desired:
- Development experience with high-performance, scalable backup and restore solutions, optimizing concurrency, data compression, and encryption algorithms to handle multi-terabyte databases with minimal performance degradation across distributed sharded environments
- Contributions to MongoDB or similar open-source projects that demonstrate your expertise and community engagement
- Experience in Linux systems administration, including suitable expertise with file systems, hardware, and networking
What is it like working for 3Pillar Global?
At 3Pillar, we offer a world of opportunity:
Imagine a flexible work environment – whether it's the office, your home, or a blend of both. From interviews to onboarding, we embody a remote-first approach.
You will be part of a global team, learning from top talent around the world and across cultures, speaking English everyday. Our global workforce enables our team to leverage global resources to accomplish our work in efficient and effective teams.
We’re big on your well-being – as a company, we spend a whole trimester in our annual cycle focused on wellbeing. Whether it is taking advantage of fitness offerings, mental health plans (country-dependent), or simply leveraging generous time off, we want all of our team members operating at their best.
Our professional services model enables us to accelerate career growth and development opportunities - across projects, offerings, and industries.
We are an equal opportunity employer. It goes without saying that we live by values like Intrinsic Dignity and Open Collaboration to create cutting-edge technology AND reinforce our commitment to diversity - globally and locally. Join us and be a part of a global tech community! 🌍💼 Check out our Linkedin site and Careers page to learn more about what it’s like to be part of our #oneteam!
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