Senior Staff Engineer

MongoDB

Hybrid

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Hybrid
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Posted
13 days ago

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MongoDB is a leading American software company that develops and provides commercial support for a popular, source-available document database. Designed to handle unstructured and structured data natively, its platform is purpose-built for modern cloud applications, analytics, and AI experiences.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer

Join our team as a Senior Staff Engineer responsible for designing and operating the Observability stack that supports MongoDB’s internal and external monitoring systems. You will lead the architecture and implementation of components ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability while collaborating with SWE and SRE teams to promote best practices in instrumentation and monitoring. The role involves handling production escalations, writing high-quality database code, and mentoring engineers. Key technologies include VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, Flink, Kafka, Java, and Golang. Ideal candidates have over 12 years of experience in designing mission-critical distributed systems with expertise in observability ecosystems and strong technical leadership skills. This role demands a deep understanding of information security management and the ability to drive large-scale projects across the company.

What you'll do

  • Define standards and vision for mission-critical observability platform.
  • Design and implement improvements enabling quick diagnosis of production issues.
  • Handle customer escalations, coaching teammates in technical support.
  • Write and maintain high-quality production-ready database code.
  • Investigate performance impacts to prevent software regression issues.
  • Develop expertise on cutting-edge database and observability advancements.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 12 years experience in designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent mission-critical software systems.
  • Strong expertise in multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level programming skills.
  • Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practices for monitoring and alerting.
  • Experience running latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems with strict SLOs on security, durability, availability, and performance.
  • Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate and mentor engineers.
  • Understanding of information security management principles and practices.

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