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:

• Define good practices for application/db interfacing
• Index tuning/optimization
• Reviewing our API routes, performance testing and making suggestions to engineering to optimize some routes
• Monitoring database metrics/performance
• Tuning database parameters and doing testing to validate performance impact
• Keeping up with Mongo release notes, making suggestions to devs about best practices, new releases/capabilities
• Dealing with Mongo support engineers
• Quarterbacking database outages
• Improving our RTO and RPO by investigating better backup/restore solutions including what we currently don't have (point-in-time recovery)

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 engine administration and perf optimization
• Experience with distributed systems/microservice architectures
• Knowledge of NoSQL / document DBs
• Strong CS background, theory knowledge

Nice to have:

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