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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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Staff Engineer will join the Collections team to design, build, and operate the internal and external observability stack for the MongoDB platform. This role involves building telemetry collection agents across data and control planes, developing ingestion services for metrics, logs, and traces, and improving systems to handle high-cardinality data at scale. The candidate will architect components for performance, scalability, and reliability while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams to define technical roadmaps. Key responsibilities include diagnosing production issues, managing large projects, and ensuring code quality across the observability infrastructure. The role requires expertise in Java, Golang, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Splunk, Flink, WarpStream/Kafka, Fluentbit, and OpenTelemetry. Candidates must possess strong systems fundamentals, experience with multi-threaded programming, and a deep understanding of database internals to solve complex problems within the high-throughput observability ecosystem.
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Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.