MongoDB
StaffEngineer,Observability
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“Staff Engineer, Observability at MongoDB. Skills: Observability, Distributed systems, System design, Technical leadership. Design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack. Design and architect systems for the mission-critical observability platform”
What You'll Achieve.
Understand the high level architecture of MongoDB observability; Fixed a few bugs; Contributed to the development of a project; Diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues; Taken on code review responsibilities; Reviewing the design for new features; Leading the development of new features; Leading new initiatives; Mentoring engineers on the team; Drive the long-term technical roadmap
Industry & Context.
Solving complex problems at scale; Diagnose the root cause of production issues; Diagnose test failures; Identify bugs; Fix bugs; Investigate performance impact
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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 systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level programming, Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, 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 Have
Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems, Indexing or database performance tuning experience
What You'll Do.
and operate the internal and external Observability stack
Design and architect systems for the mission-critical observability platform
Lead the architecture and implementation of components
Design and implement observability improvements
Handle production customer escalations
Write production-ready database code
Improve existing code
Diagnose test failures
Identify bugs in existing code
Prevent bugs from being introduced
Investigate performance impact of code changes
Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions
Develop and maintain expertise on cutting edge database
Develop and maintain expertise on observability developments
Lead development of larger projects
Lead project management of larger projects
Advise Product Management on technical product direction
Advise Product Management on engineering complexity
Advise Product Management on inter-project dependencies
Define product roadmaps
Champion integration tests
Improve integration tests
Fix issues with customers
Fix issues with support engineers
Become part of on-call rotation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with other SWE, Product and SRE teams; Promote and implement best practices; Collaborate with stakeholders; Collaborate with engineering teams; Collaborate with Product Management; Collaborate with Engineering leadership; Work with customers; Work with support engineers
Communication Scope
Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills; Desire to collaborate with colleagues; Mentor engineers
Process & Methodology
Project management, Make realistic assessments of project cost, Make realistic assessments of project complexity, Lead project management of larger projects
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Staff engineer to design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack for the MongoDB platform. Tens of thousands of customers depend on our Observability stack to monitor their database clusters and to generate actionable alerts to safeguard critical workloads. This is an opportunity to join a team that is responsible for all Observability systems that support metrics, metric visualization, logs, traces, and alerts for MongoDB. We are looking for engineers with high standards, and experience in setting direction and technical leadership for large engineering teams in designing and operating complex distributed systems, with strict SLO on security, durability, availability and performance. As MongoDB Atlas and its supporting infrastructure continue to experience rapid growth, the demand for high-cardinality observability data for internal and external use cases means we need to continually innovate and scale our systems to the next level. For example, MongoDB Observability systems need to handle 10’s of billions of metrics time series, all whilst processing petabytes of logs, traces, and events. Our stack includes VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, Flink, WarpStream/Kafka, Java, Golang Fluentbit. In addition to owning critical components of our observability infrastructure, as a Staff engineer on the team, you’ll also work closely with other SWE, Product and SRE teams to promote and implement best practices in instrumenting and monitoring their services. This is a highly collaborative role, and you will get to own some of the most relied upon internal infrastructure at Mongo. 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 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. We are lookin
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