Staff Engineer, Observability

We are seeking a Staff engineer to design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack for the MongoDB platform. ## What you'll do 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 looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Candidate Profile - 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 - ( ## Nice to have ) Indexing or database performance tuning experience  - 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 Responsibilities - 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 quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of production issues. - Handle production customer escalations from Technical Support team and coach teammates to do the same - Write production-ready database code, improve the existing code, and mentor their team to write higher quality code - Own areas of code that the Observability Team maintains, ensuring it achieves a high standard for quality (including security, durability, availability, and performance) and maintainability - Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, fix them, and prevent bugs from being introduced in new code - Investigate the performance impact of code changes that may cause software performance regressions - Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions - Develop and maintain expertise on cutting edge database, and observability developments from industry and academia - Lead development and project management of some of the larger projects across the company - Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives - Advise Product Management on technical product direction, engineering complexity and inter-project dependencies - Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define product roadmaps - Champion and improve unit and integration tests to demonstrate correctness - Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues and become part of our on-call rotation  Success Measures - In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of MongoDB observability, and fixed a few bugs - In three months, you will have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major release of MongoDB, and diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues - In six months, you will have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features …

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