Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

MongoDB is a company that empowers customers to innovate at the speed of the market, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Networking Observability team. The role involves building and enhancing components that facilitate communication between distributed processes and improve resource utilization and observability features.

Responsibilities:

• Join and be a part of leading the MongoDB Networking Observability team, helping build the core of a distributed database!
• Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between cooperating distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable
• Networking Observability’s responsibilities include improving MongoDB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization and building low-overhead observability features
• Our team currently consists of six engineers, some located in New York City and some fully remote
• We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the performance and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall
• Recently we’ve worked on POCs and performance tests for new architectural directions in our networking stack, and are integrating OpenTelemetry to accelerate investigation of issues or performance bottlenecks in our tests
• Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Experienced and passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
• Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. Experience in C++ is required
• Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices play out in a system like MongoDB
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers
• Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity
• Good computer networking fundamentals and a desire to improve them
• Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as High performance / low latency networking, Performance tuning, Building high performance distributed and concurrent systems