[Hiring] Software Engineer 3, Networking & Observability @MongoDB

Role Description

Join the MongoDB Networking & Observability team and help build the core of a distributed database! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable. Networking Observability’s responsibilities include:

• Improving MongoDB networking
• Improving the efficiency of resource utilization
• Building low-overhead observability features

Our team includes engineers located in New York City and fully remote engineers. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the availability, performance, and robustness of our open source database. Recent improvements include:

• Improved connection handling
• Explored new networking architectures
• Integrated OpenTelemetry to make issues easier to diagnose and connect MongoDB to modern observability tools

We are planning to further improve our networking’s stack performance, availability, and scalability as well as enhance our observability stack using open observability frameworks.

This role will be based remotely in Canada.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
• Solid computer science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Hands-on experience with building production-level code; experience in C++ is required
• Interest in furthering knowledge of networking, observability, and how computer architecture and internals impact the availability of SaaS
• Solid verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues

Requirements

• Understand and improve the current functionality of the MongoDB networking and observability codebase
• Lead medium sized projects related to our networking code or observability frameworks from technical design to delivery
• Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery)
• Own our leadership principles and exemplify them in your work
• Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career!

Success Measures

• In one month, you'll have fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest release series
• In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version
• In six months, you’ll have taken on primary code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In twelve months, you’re making significant contributions to the development of a new major feature

Benefits

• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match
• Mental health counseling
• Backup child and elder care
• Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings

Company Description

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.