The opportunity
We are seeking a Staff engineer to design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack for the MongoDB platform. Tens of thousands of customers depend on our Observability stack to monitor their database clusters and to generate actionable alerts to safeguard critical workloads.
What you'll do
Help build and architect systems for the mission-critical observability: platform, leading the architecture and implementation of components that drive performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency
Design and implement observability improvements that enable MongoDB engineers: and customers to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of production issues
Handle production customer escalations from Technical Support team and coach teammates to do the same
Write production-ready database code, improve the existing code, and mentor: their team to write higher quality code
Own areas of code that the Observability Team maintains, ensuring it achieves: a high standard for quality (including security, durability, availability, and performance) and maintainability
Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, fix them, and prevent: bugs from being introduced in new code
What they're looking for
- Investigate the performance impact of code changes that may cause software performance regressions
- Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions
- Develop and maintain expertise on cutting edge database, and observability: developments from industry and academia
- Lead development and project management of some of the larger projects across the company