Software Engineer 3, Networking & Observability

Join the MongoDB 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 MongoDB 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. Recently, we’ve improved connection handling, explored new networking architectures, and integrated OpenTelemetry to make issues easier to diagnose and connect MongoDB to modern observability tools. We are planning to further improve our networking’s stack performance, availability and scalability as well as further enhance our observability stack using open observability frameworks.

Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

This role will be based remotely in Canada.

Candidate Profile

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 of SaaS

Solid verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues

Position Expectations

Understand and improve the current functionality of the MongoDB 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)

Own our leadership principles, and exemplify them in your work

Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career!

Success Measures

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

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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