Software Engineer - Core Database (Kernel)

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM The Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. We are committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community. Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Infrastructure organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core infrastructure used by product teams which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing our primary database and cache infrastructure as well as building automation around managing cloud components for compute, cache, and networking. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products, globally and at scale. RESPONSIBILITIES * Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services * Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services * Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers * Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization WHO YOU ARE We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * 5+ years of professional experience in a software development role * Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider * A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, with a solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives * Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, including diagnosing low-level resource constraints * Experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and system-level metrics PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience with popular cloud technologies — AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud * Experience with Go or other systems languages (e.g., Rust, C/C++) * Experience with Linux OS internals, performance optimization, and kernel-level troubleshooting * Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and low-level container mechanics * Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale * Experience handling critical incidents for production systems

Technical Services has global team members in offices spanning the globe including New York City, Toronto, Austin, Palo Alto, Vancouver, Sydney, Gurgaon (India), Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Buenos Aires. Outstanding customer satisfaction is achieved utilizing a 24x7x365 ‘follow-the-sun’ support model with regional teams covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions. We are looking for a transformational leader to join the MongoDB Technical Services team, leading regional teams of MongoDB ‘core’ and ‘cloud’ Support Engineers. Individuals in this team are experts in addressing issues related to MongoDB’s core database functionality as well as troubleshooting cloud issues to enable successful customer implementations at scale. Click here to learn more about our Technical Services team. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Austin, as this role will require working in our Austin office 3 or more days a week. TYPICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TEAM INCLUDE * Diagnosing and resolving performance related issues * Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency and meeting data sovereignty requirements * Advising on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution * Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues * Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team * Increasing case-deflection numbers by contributing to knowledge-base, distributing knowledge to peers and the general MongoDB community * Working on specific accounts to build rapport and an in-depth understanding of customer architecture and environment(s) while encouraging expansion of use Our customers are the best and brightest in the business and they have great expectations of our products and our company. If you are the type of person who enjoys helping customers, managing complex, fast-moving situations and leading/managing a talented group of individuals who continuously delight our customers, then this role is for you! CANDIDATE PROFILE Required * 8+ years managing technical support or customer-facing engineering teams, with demonstrated success scaling operations, implementing process improvements, and elevating team performance * Proven track record in operational excellence: implementing metrics-driven improvements, designing scalable workflows, and optimizing resource allocation across distributed teams * Strong people development philosophy: history of coaching technical talent from individual contributors to senior engineers, with concrete examples of career progression under your leadership * Deep technical foundation across multiple database technologies (relational, NoSQL, distributed systems) with hands-on experience diagnosing complex production issues * Project leadership experience: successfully led cross-functional technical initiatives requiring coordination across engineering, product, and support organizations * Exposure to AI/ML technologies: understanding of how modern AI systems interact with data platforms, vector databases, or experience supporting AI-driven applications * Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking—equally comfortable reviewing query execution plans and presenting operational roadmaps to executives * Experience building and refining KPIs, implementing tooling improvements, and using data to drive team decisions * Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills with ability to lead-by-example during critical escalations * Comfort with the full people management lifecycle: hiring, performance management, succession planning, and translating organizational strategy to individual development plans * Ability to calibrate communication for diverse audiences—from kernel debugging sessions to executive business reviews Desirable * Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or managing support for highly concurrent distributed systems in production. Scaled SaaS customer facing role experience preferred * Experience with modern observability, analytics, and automation tools; familiarity with how AI can enhance team operations * Track record of process innovation that demonstrably improved efficiency metrics (case deflection, resolution time, customer satisfaction) * Experience developing analytical dashboards using tools like Tableau, or implementing data-driven approaches to operational planning SUCCESS MEASURES * Within 30 days * Complete MongoDB’s new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products * Build initial rapport with the team and gain their trust * Within 60 days * Understand our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes * Have formed relationships with escalation managers, CSMs, sales, field and engineering stakeholders * Have begun conducting regular 1 on1’s with your teams as well as other managers within Technical Services and across the business * Within 90 days * Take assignment of and drive five (5) cases to closure to learn our internal processes * Have identified areas of efficiency for the team to scale * Effectively lead regional escalations and RCA’s when needed * At 120 days and onward * Present a comprehensive operational improvement plan addressing at least two areas: process efficiency, tooling gaps, knowledge management, or team development frameworks * Conduct three (3) face-to-face interactions with marquee customers, either in-person or virtually * Demonstrate the understanding of the short and long term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives ABOUT MONGODB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world! MongoDB 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.  MongoDB, 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.   Req ID: 3263274319 MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. 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. MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $140,000—$275,000 USD