Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

Join the Mongo

DB Networking & Observability team and help build the core of a distributed database ! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable. Networking Observability’s responsibilities include improving Mongo

DB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization, and building low-overhead observability features.

Our team includes engineers located in New York City and fully remote engineers. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the availability, 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 Open Telemetry to accelerate investigation of issues and integrate with a wider ecosystem of observability tooling.

Are you excited to help the Mongo

DB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

Note:

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

• 3+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
• Solid computer science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Hands‑on experience with building production‑level code. Experience in C++ is required
• Interest in furthering their knowledge of networking, observability and how computer architecture and internals impact the availability
• Solid verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues

• Understand and improve the current functionality of the Mongo
  
  DB networking and observability codebase
• Lead medium sized projects related to our networking code or observability frameworks from technical design to delivery
• Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery)
• Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career

• In one month, you'll have fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest release series
• In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version
• In six months, you’ll have taken on primary code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In twelve months, you’re making significant contributions to the development of a new major features

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DB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi‑cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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DB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is: $108,000 — $149,000 CAD