Software Engineer 3, Cloud Alerts Platform

The database market is massive and MongoDB is at the forefront of its disruption. At MongoDB, we are transforming how developers build and run applications. Our distributed systems power mission-critical services used by thousands of customers around the globe.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Cloud Core Alerts Platform team, building scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems that process millions of events and alerts in real time.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Our domain includes

Alert Streaming Systems: Real-time alerting pipelines using Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis, delivering critical insights for MongoDB Atlas customers

Event Systems: SOA-based event platforms leveraging gRPC and streaming architectures to power the MongoDB activity feed at scale

Communication Systems: Distributed services to deliver alert notifications through multiple channels (email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty) with reliability and resilience

Third-Party Integrations: Securely managing customer credentials and integrating with external observability providers, ensuring encryption at rest and in transit

Cross-team Collaboration: Partnering with the broader Customer Observability teams to provide unified telemetry and monitoring experiences

What you’ll do

Design and build distributed systems that process millions of events per second with high availability and low latency

Lead end-to-end projects from design to production, ensuring scalability, observability, and operational excellence

Evolve our streaming alerting and eventing platforms, improving reliability, throughput, and developer experience

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate alerting, event, and communication services into the broader customer observability ecosystem

Develop secure, multi-tenant integrations with third-party providers, handling sensitive customer credentials safely

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