Staff Engineer

Requirements

• Solving complex problems at scale, and to high standards, excites you
• Minimum 10 years of experience in designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++/Java/Rust mission critical software systems
• Experience running latency sensitive, high throughput systems
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level programming
• Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems
• Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practices
• 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
• Has a good understanding of information security management

Nice to Haves

• Indexing or database performance tuning experience

What You'll Be Doing

• Help build and architect systems for the mission-critical observability platform, leading the architecture and implementation of components that drive performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency
• Design and implement observability improvements that enable MongoDB engineers and customers to diagnose issues
• Handle production customer escalations and coach teammates
• Write production-ready database code, improve existing code, and mentor team
• Own areas of code that the Observability Team maintains and ensure high standards for quality
• Diagnose and fix bugs, investigate performance impact, and lead development projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams on initiatives, advise Product Management, and define roadmaps
• Champion and improve unit and integration tests, work on customer issues, and be part of on-call rotation

Perks and Benefits

• In the first month, understand the high-level architecture, and fix bugs
• In three months, contribute to project development and diagnose issues
• In six months, take on code review responsibilities and review new feature designs
• In twelve months, lead development, mentor engineers, and drive technical roadmap