Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The Networking & Observability Team builds infrastructure for low-overhead observability and communication between MongoDB Server nodes, clients, and other services. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a huge impact on the performance and robustness of the database. Recently, we’ve worked on POCs for making our RPC stack’s architecture as performant as possible and are integrating OpenTelemetry to accelerate the diagnosis of performance issues and test failures.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to be a deeply technical leader on a collaborative team that applies low-level systems and networking expertise to build the foundational infrastructure of a popular database, join us! Let’s build a faster, more reliable, and exceptionally observable database system together

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

Candidate Profile

Minimum 12 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and / or highly concurrent C / C++ software systems

Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level network programming

Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems

Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practice

Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor engineers

Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and implementation of low-level networking components that drive the performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency of MongoDB Server

Design and implement observability improvements that enable MongoDB engineers and customers to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of production issues

Handle networking-related customer escalations from Technical Support team and coach teammates to do the same

Write production-ready database code in C++, improve the existing code, and mentor their team to write higher quality code

Own all code the Networking & Observability Team maintains, ensuring it achieves a high standard for quality (including security, durability, availability, and performance) and maintainability

Write and improve unit and integration tests in C++, Javascript, and Python to demonstrate correctness

Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, fix them, and prevent bugs from being introduced in new code

Investigate the performance impact of code changes that may cause software performance regressions

Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions

Develop and maintain expertise on cutting edge database, networking, and observability developments from industry and academia

Lead development and project management of some of the largest projects across the company

Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives

Advise Product Management on technical product direction, engineering complexity and inter-project dependencies

Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define product roadmaps

Success Measures

In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of MongoDB networking and observability, and fixed a few bugs

In three months, you will have contributed to the development in C++ of a project slated for the next major release of MongoDB, and diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues

In six months, you will have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features

In twelve months, you will be leading the development of new features and initiatives, helping to mentor engineers on the team, and using your experience to drive the long-term technical roadmap of the Networking & Observability Team

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB (https : / / www.mongodb.com / blog / channel / culture) , and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID #1263082298

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include : equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is :

$175,000—$243,000 CAD

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