Job Description
Title: Senior Software Engineer, MongoDB Specialist
Location: Remote
Mural’s mission is to inspire teams to connect and innovate, while bringing purpose and intention to the craft of collaboration.
Founded in 2011, Mural is a leading innovator in visual collaboration for hybrid, remote, and distributed teams. We believe in what we build, and our team of more than 600 Muralistas around the world collaborate in the Mural app. Our values guide our intentionally inclusive product and culture, which includes collaboration design education and a flexible monthly stipend for learning, wellness, and coworking.
Mural has raised $200M to date and is growing rapidly to fulfill our mission. The company is trusted by 95% of the Fortune 100, including innovative teams at IBM, Intuit, GitLab, Microsoft, and Atlassian.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our team is a crucial part of the Foundation organization. We are dedicated to safeguarding, supporting, and advancing the software and systems that power all of the Mural’s public services. With an unwavering focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity, our vigilant eye ensures uninterrupted service delivery to our users. Together, we strive to maintain the reliability and optimization of our infrastructure, enabling seamless experiences for our customers.
YOUR MISSION
We are actively seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer, with a specialized focus on MongoDB, to join our team. As a MongoDB Specialist, you will lead in the design, construction, and maintenance of our database architecture for software products. Your role will involve close collaboration with development teams, product departments, and data engineering to ensure that our databases not only scale, but also maintain exceptional levels of reliability and efficiency, adhering to best practices in the field.
Extensive experience with scalable usage of MongoDB in application backends is a key requirement for this position.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design and implement database architecture for software products, including MongoDB databases.
- Define database schema and data structures based on business requirements
- Ensure that the data stores achieve maximum performance and availability
- Design indexing strategies.
- Design and implement software tools and applications that extend the given capabilities of existing data stores technologies, in order to meet unmet needs.
- Collaborate with development teams, product departments, and data engineering to integrate database components with their client software applications.
- Help product departments use our data stores with the best practices and ensure data governance and compliance.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging database technologies and trends, and propose strategies for staying ahead of our game.
- Be on a rotating on-call schedule
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 5+ years of experience in the design, implementation, configuration, and administration of MongoDB databases.
- Software development experience with proficiency in at least one programming language.
- Experience with NoSQL schema management including large-scale schema migrations with live data
- Experience with enterprise-compliant database models and operations.
- Experience in designing and implementing strategies that provide high availability, redundancy and business continuity to mission-critical systems.
- Experience in managing SIEM solutions like DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus+Grafana, etc.