Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability Seattle

The Networking & Observability Team builds infrastructure for low-overhead observability and communication between Mongo

DB 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 Open Telemetry 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 NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.

• 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

• Lead the architecture and implementation of low-level networking components that drive the performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency of Mongo
  
  DB Server
• Design and implement observability improvements that enable Mongo
  
  DB 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
• 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

• In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of Mongo
  
  DB 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 Mongo
  
  DB, 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

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