Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

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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.

Note: This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.

• 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

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.