Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Seattle, WA · PTO Clusters & Interfaces

Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability at MongoDB. This role focuses on building and enhancing components for a distributed database, specifically related to networking, resource utilization efficiency, and low-overhead observability features. The team operates at a low level of the stack, influencing performance and robustness, and is integrating OpenTelemetry. Requires 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, C++ production code, and strong computer networking fundamentals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Join and be a part of leading the MongoDB Networking Observability team, helping build the core of a distributed database!
  2. Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between cooperating distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable.
  3. Networking Observability’s responsibilities include improving MongoDB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization and building low-overhead observability features.
  4. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience building distributed systems
  • Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
  • Experience in C++
  • Good computer networking fundamentals

Nice to have

  • Experienced and passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
  • 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
  • a desire to improve them
  • Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in C++ is required