Job Description
Join and be a part of leading the MongoDB Networking Observability team helping build the core of a distributed database! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between cooperating 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 currently consists of six engineers some located in New York City and some fully remote. We operate close to the bottom of the stack and have a lot of influence over the performance and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall. Recently we’ve worked on POCs and performance tests for new architectural directions in our networking stack and are integrating OpenTelemetry to accelerate investigation of issues or performance bottlenecks in our tests.
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.
Note: This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.
Candidate Profile- 10+ years of experience building distributed systems
- Experienced and passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
- Experience with building production-level code with a large user base robust design structure and rigorous code quality. Experience in C++ is required
- Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices play out in a system like MongoDB
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers
- Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity
- Good computer networking fundamentals and a desire to improve them
- Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as
- High performance / low latency networking
- Performance tuning
- Building high performance distributed and concurrent systems.
MongoDB is built for change empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era enabling innovators to create transform and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and nearly 60000 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.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment guiding how and why we make decisions show up for each other and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Req ID: 3263251943
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set experience qualifications and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity participation in the employee stock purchase program flexible paid time off 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave fertility and adoption assistance 401(k) plan mental health counseling access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage and health benefits offerings. Please note the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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