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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, Observability will join the team responsible for designing, building, and operating the internal and external observability stack for the MongoDB platform. This role involves architecting mission-critical systems to manage metrics, visualizations, logs, traces, and alerts while ensuring strict standards for security, durability, availability, and performance. The engineer will tackle the challenge of scaling infrastructure to handle high-cardinality data, including billions of time series and petabytes of logs. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, collaborating with product teams on roadmaps, and managing large projects to improve system scalability and cost-efficiency. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, multi-threaded programming, and performance profiling. Candidates should be proficient in Java, Golang, VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, Flink, WarpStream/Kafka, and Fluentbit while possessing a deep understanding of database internals and the broader observability ecosystem to resolve complex production issues.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.
Architect and build scalable systems for the mission-critical observability platform including metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
Design and implement improvements to help customers and engineers diagnose production issues quickly.
Write high-quality, production-ready database code while mentoring team members on coding standards.
Manage and optimize core components to ensure strict standards for security, durability, availability, and performance.
Diagnose bugs, investigate performance regressions, and resolve test failures in the existing codebase.
Lead large-scale projects and provide technical guidance on product roadmaps and engineering complexity.
Handle production customer escalations and participate in the on-call rotation to resolve critical issues.
Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions to grow the engineering organization.
What we're looking for
Minimum 10 years of experience in designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed or highly concurrent C/C++/Java/Rust mission-critical systems.