Principal Performance Engineer

What we offer

• Aggressively growing shard (~1.5-2TB/month) crossing mongoDB shard scalability threshold
• Actively working with the MongoDB engineering team who designed sharding to solve complex scalability/performance issues

Expectations:

• Help define good practices for application/db interfacing
• Help tuning/optimization of indices usage
• Actively reviewing our API routes, database performance and make suggestions to all engineering teams to optimize bottlenecks
• Help tuning database parameters and help performance testing to validate performance impact
• Keeping up with MongoDB release notes, making suggestions to all engineering teams about best practices, new releases and capabilities
• Help communicating with MongoDB support engineers

Requirements

• Application code perf optimization experience (ideally with NodeJS)
• Good knowledge of DB engines (DB specialist with software dev background, expert programming experience)
• Experience with DB perf optimization
• Experience with distributed systems/microservice architectures
• Knowledge of DBs (preferably NoSQL / document DBs)
• Strong CS background, theory knowledge

Nice to have:

• MongoDB experience
• NodeJS experience
• Real-world experience with performance/stress/load testing