MongoDB · 2 weeks ago
Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $270K/yr
10+ years expMongoDB is a leader in database technology, empowering customers to innovate rapidly. The Staff Software Engineer will play a crucial role in enhancing the networking and observability components of MongoDB's distributed database, focusing on performance improvements and resource utilization.
Cloud ComputingDatabaseOpen SourceSaaSSoftware
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
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
Health benefits offerings
Company
MongoDB
MongoDB is a next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Chief Technology Officer
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