Staff Engineer, Distributed Systems

MongoDB • Australia, New South Wales, Australia • Posted June 21, 2026

Location Australia, New South Wales
Job Type Full-time
Category Engineers
Posted June 21, 2026

The Storage Engines team is building WiredTiger, a cutting-edge open-source storage engine. WiredTiger employs modern hardware architectures and software algorithms to achieve extraordinary performance for the most intricate applications. This team’s role is to maintain a pluggable protocol for MongoDB storage engines, and provide a comprehensive framework for managing concurrent, transactional access to data stored within a MongoDB database instance.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. As a team member, you will contribute to crafting and maintaining the nexus of the different server components, connecting its query system and distributed replication system to its underlying storage engines. Ongoing work includes improvements to our transaction management, scaling the code base, and improving resilience and availability for the server.


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