Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability

Join MongoDB as a Staff Software Engineer in the Networking & Observability team, helping build the core of a distributed database. The team focuses on creating and enhancing components that enable communication between cooperating distributed processes and make these processes and their communication easily observable. Responsibilities include improving MongoDB networking, enhancing resource utilization efficiency, and building low‑overhead observability features.

Responsibilities

The team currently consists of six engineers located in New York City and fully remote. We operate close to the bottom of the stack and significantly influence the performance and robustness of our open‑source database as well as the engineering team’s development efficiency. Recent work involved POCs and performance tests for new architectural directions in the networking stack and integrating OpenTelemetry to accelerate i...