Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

Overview

Mongo

DB’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, Mongo

DB 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 Mongo

DB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust Mongo

DB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Join and be a part of leading the Mongo

DB 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 Mongo

DB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization and building low-overhead observability features. Our team currently consists of six engineers and is distributed across New York City and remote locations. We operate close to the bottom of the stack and have influence over the performance and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team.

We have worked on POCs and performance tests for new architectural directions in our networking stack and are integrating Open Telemetry 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.

• Help build and maintain the core networking and observability components of a distributed database.
• Improve Mongo
  
  DB networking performance and resource utilization.
• Develop low-overhead observability features to aid debugging and performance analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-team stakeholders to deliver production-quality, scalable software.
• Contribute to design discussions and participate in performance testing and evaluation of new architectural directions.

• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems.
• Experience delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders.
• Production-level code experience with a large user base, robust design, and rigorous code quality; C++ is required.
• Understanding of modern computer architecture and internals to reason about design choices in a system like Mongo
  
  DB.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a motivation to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers.
• Strong time and project management skills with the ability to assess cost and complexity realistically.
• Good computer networking fundamentals and a desire to improve them.
• Demonstrated industry success or academic research in high performance / low latency networking, performance tuning, or building high performance distributed and concurrent systems.

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DB is committed to providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities in the application and interview process. The base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $137,000—$270,000 USD. Compensation is based on skill set, experience, qualifications, and location. Benefits may include equity, employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k), mental health resources, transgender-inclusive health coverage, and other health benefits.