Staff Engineer, Observability

MongoDB

Hybrid

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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 · Staff Engineer, Observability

Join our team as a Staff Engineer responsible for designing and building the internal and external observability stack at MongoDB, supporting tens of thousands of customers. You will lead the architecture and implementation of complex distributed systems with strict SLOs on security, durability, availability, and performance. Your daily tasks include improving observability to help diagnose production issues, handling customer escalations, writing high-quality database code, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires expertise in VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, Flink, Kafka, Java, Golang, and Fluentbit, along with a strong background in distributed systems and experience in setting technical direction for large teams. This highly collaborative position involves working closely with SWE, Product, and SRE teams to promote best practices in monitoring and instrumentation. Ideal candidates have at least 10 years of relevant experience and a passion for solving complex problems at scale.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement mission-critical observability systems for performance, scalability, and resiliency.
  • Lead architecture and implementation of components to enable quick diagnosis of production issues.
  • Handle customer escalations and mentor team members in resolving technical issues.
  • Write high-quality database code and ensure it meets security, durability, availability standards.
  • Investigate and mitigate software performance regressions caused by code changes.
  • Develop expertise on cutting-edge database and observability advancements for product roadmaps.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years of 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 the 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, including mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams.
  • Understanding of information security management principles and practices.
  • Leadership experience in setting direction and providing technical guidance for large engineering teams.

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