Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability Careers at MongoDB - New York City, New York | Apply Now!
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Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability Careers at MongoDB - New York City, New York | Apply Now!
Job Description
Role Overview
Join MongoDB as a Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability and become a technical leader building the foundational infrastructure for the world's leading modern developer data platform. The Networking & Observability Team operates at the lowest levels of the stack, delivering massive impact on MongoDB Server performance, scalability, and reliability. We're integrating OpenTelemetry for world-class observability and optimizing our RPC stack for maximum throughput.
This Senior Staff Engineer role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge distributed systems challenges using C++, advanced networking protocols, and observability best practices. Based in New York City or remote across North America, you'll collaborate with top engineers to build a faster, more reliable, and exceptionally observable NoSQL database.
MongoDB powers the world's most innovative companies with our cloud-native Atlas platform across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. As a Staff Engineer, you'll own critical infrastructure that serves millions of developers building AI applications, real-time analytics, and modern workloads.
Key Responsibilities at MongoDB
- Lead architecture of low-level networking components that drive MongoDB Server performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency
- Design and implement observability improvements with OpenTelemetry enabling engineers and customers to quickly diagnose production issues
- Handle customer escalations from Technical Support related to networking and coach teammates on resolution strategies
- Write production C++ code for the database core, improve existing codebase, and mentor engineers on best practices
- Own team codebase ensuring highest standards for security, durability, availability, performance, and maintainability
- Develop comprehensive tests in C++, JavaScript, and Python to validate correctness and prevent regressions
- Lead major initiatives collaborating with stakeholders across Product Management and Engineering
- Drive technical roadmap advising on product direction, complexity, and inter-project dependencies
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical leadership
Qualifications & Requirements
To succeed as a Senior Staff Engineer at MongoDB, you'll need:
- 12+ years experience programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed/highly concurrent C/C++ systems
- Expert systems knowledge: multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, network programming mastery
- Database internals experience or building core components for data processing systems
- Observability expertise with OpenTelemetry and industry best practices
- Proven leadership with excellent technical communication and mentoring skills
- Strong project management with realistic cost/complexity assessment abilities
Success Timeline: Month 1 - Understand architecture, fix bugs; Month 3 - Ship C++ features; Month 6 - Lead code reviews; Year 1 - Drive roadmap and mentor team.
Salary & Benefits
MongoDB offers competitive compensation for Senior Staff Engineers including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. Enjoy:
- Competitive Equity in the NoSQL market leader
- Wellness Programs with mental health support
- MongoDB University unlimited training
- Global Family Leave for all parents
- Flexible Remote Work North America
- Learning Stipend professional development
- 401(k) Matching comprehensive health
- Generous PTO volunteer programs
Why Join MongoDB?
MongoDB is the database for modern developers, powering AI innovation across industries. Our unified platform - the most widely available globally distributed database - helps organizations modernize workloads and unleash AI potential. With Atlas on AWS, GCP, and Azure, we're redefining databases for the AI era.
Join a collaborative, inclusive team championing diversity while building infrastructure that serves millions. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll have massive impact on MongoDB's core performance and work with the brightest minds in distributed systems.
How to Apply
Ready to build the future of NoSQL databases? Apply now for the Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability position at MongoDB. Submit your resume and join us in New York City or remote to create the world's most observable, performant database platform.
Keywords: C++ Senior Staff Engineer, MongoDB careers, distributed systems jobs, networking engineering, OpenTelemetry jobs, NoSQL database careers, remote software engineer.
Locations
- New York City, New York, United States
- Remote, United States (Remote)
- Remote, Canada (Remote)
Salary
262,500 - 440,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- C++ Programmingintermediate
- Distributed Systemsintermediate
- Network Programmingintermediate
- Performance Profilingintermediate
- Multi-threaded Programmingintermediate
- MongoDB Internalsintermediate
- OpenTelemetryintermediate
- Observability Engineeringintermediate
- Database Architectureintermediate
- RPC Optimizationintermediate
- Systems Programmingintermediate
- NoSQL Databasesintermediate
- High Concurrency Systemsintermediate
- Production Debuggingintermediate
- Technical Leadershipintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 12 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++ software systems (experience)
- Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level network programming (experience)
- Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems (experience)
- Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practices including OpenTelemetry (experience)
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills with strong desire to collaborate and mentor engineers (experience)
- Excellent time and project management skills including realistic assessments of project cost and complexity (experience)
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation of low-level networking components driving MongoDB Server performance and scalability
- Design observability improvements using OpenTelemetry to enable rapid diagnosis of production issues
- Handle networking-related customer escalations and coach teammates on resolution
- Write production-ready C++ database code and mentor team on code quality improvements
- Own all Networking & Observability Team code ensuring security, durability, availability, and performance standards
- Develop unit and integration tests in C++, JavaScript, and Python to demonstrate correctness
- Diagnose test failures, fix bugs, and prevent regressions through rigorous investigation
- Lead development of major projects collaborating across engineering and product teams
- Interview candidates and advise Product Management on technical roadmaps
- Stay current with cutting-edge database, networking, and observability developments
Benefits
- general: Competitive Equity in the leading NoSQL database company
- general: Comprehensive Wellness Programs including mental health support
- general: MongoDB University with unlimited free training and certifications
- general: Global Family Leave policy for all parents
- general: Flexible remote work across North America
- general: Annual learning stipend for professional development
- general: 401(k) matching and comprehensive health benefits
- general: Generous paid time off and volunteer time off programs
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Job Description
Role Overview
Join MongoDB as a Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability and become a technical leader building the foundational infrastructure for the world's leading modern developer data platform. The Networking & Observability Team operates at the lowest levels of the stack, delivering massive impact on MongoDB Server performance, scalability, and reliability. We're integrating OpenTelemetry for world-class observability and optimizing our RPC stack for maximum throughput.
This Senior Staff Engineer role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge distributed systems challenges using C++, advanced networking protocols, and observability best practices. Based in New York City or remote across North America, you'll collaborate with top engineers to build a faster, more reliable, and exceptionally observable NoSQL database.
MongoDB powers the world's most innovative companies with our cloud-native Atlas platform across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. As a Staff Engineer, you'll own critical infrastructure that serves millions of developers building AI applications, real-time analytics, and modern workloads.
Key Responsibilities at MongoDB
- Lead architecture of low-level networking components that drive MongoDB Server performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency
- Design and implement observability improvements with OpenTelemetry enabling engineers and customers to quickly diagnose production issues
- Handle customer escalations from Technical Support related to networking and coach teammates on resolution strategies
- Write production C++ code for the database core, improve existing codebase, and mentor engineers on best practices
- Own team codebase ensuring highest standards for security, durability, availability, performance, and maintainability
- Develop comprehensive tests in C++, JavaScript, and Python to validate correctness and prevent regressions
- Lead major initiatives collaborating with stakeholders across Product Management and Engineering
- Drive technical roadmap advising on product direction, complexity, and inter-project dependencies
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical leadership
Qualifications & Requirements
To succeed as a Senior Staff Engineer at MongoDB, you'll need:
- 12+ years experience programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed/highly concurrent C/C++ systems
- Expert systems knowledge: multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, network programming mastery
- Database internals experience or building core components for data processing systems
- Observability expertise with OpenTelemetry and industry best practices
- Proven leadership with excellent technical communication and mentoring skills
- Strong project management with realistic cost/complexity assessment abilities
Success Timeline: Month 1 - Understand architecture, fix bugs; Month 3 - Ship C++ features; Month 6 - Lead code reviews; Year 1 - Drive roadmap and mentor team.
Salary & Benefits
MongoDB offers competitive compensation for Senior Staff Engineers including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. Enjoy:
- Competitive Equity in the NoSQL market leader
- Wellness Programs with mental health support
- MongoDB University unlimited training
- Global Family Leave for all parents
- Flexible Remote Work North America
- Learning Stipend professional development
- 401(k) Matching comprehensive health
- Generous PTO volunteer programs
Why Join MongoDB?
MongoDB is the database for modern developers, powering AI innovation across industries. Our unified platform - the most widely available globally distributed database - helps organizations modernize workloads and unleash AI potential. With Atlas on AWS, GCP, and Azure, we're redefining databases for the AI era.
Join a collaborative, inclusive team championing diversity while building infrastructure that serves millions. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll have massive impact on MongoDB's core performance and work with the brightest minds in distributed systems.
How to Apply
Ready to build the future of NoSQL databases? Apply now for the Senior Staff Engineer, Server Networking & Observability position at MongoDB. Submit your resume and join us in New York City or remote to create the world's most observable, performant database platform.
Keywords: C++ Senior Staff Engineer, MongoDB careers, distributed systems jobs, networking engineering, OpenTelemetry jobs, NoSQL database careers, remote software engineer.
Locations
- New York City, New York, United States
- Remote, United States (Remote)
- Remote, Canada (Remote)
Salary
262,500 - 440,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- C++ Programmingintermediate
- Distributed Systemsintermediate
- Network Programmingintermediate
- Performance Profilingintermediate
- Multi-threaded Programmingintermediate
- MongoDB Internalsintermediate
- OpenTelemetryintermediate
- Observability Engineeringintermediate
- Database Architectureintermediate
- RPC Optimizationintermediate
- Systems Programmingintermediate
- NoSQL Databasesintermediate
- High Concurrency Systemsintermediate
- Production Debuggingintermediate
- Technical Leadershipintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 12 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++ software systems (experience)
- Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level network programming (experience)
- Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems (experience)
- Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practices including OpenTelemetry (experience)
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills with strong desire to collaborate and mentor engineers (experience)
- Excellent time and project management skills including realistic assessments of project cost and complexity (experience)
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation of low-level networking components driving MongoDB Server performance and scalability
- Design observability improvements using OpenTelemetry to enable rapid diagnosis of production issues
- Handle networking-related customer escalations and coach teammates on resolution
- Write production-ready C++ database code and mentor team on code quality improvements
- Own all Networking & Observability Team code ensuring security, durability, availability, and performance standards
- Develop unit and integration tests in C++, JavaScript, and Python to demonstrate correctness
- Diagnose test failures, fix bugs, and prevent regressions through rigorous investigation
- Lead development of major projects collaborating across engineering and product teams
- Interview candidates and advise Product Management on technical roadmaps
- Stay current with cutting-edge database, networking, and observability developments
Benefits
- general: Competitive Equity in the leading NoSQL database company
- general: Comprehensive Wellness Programs including mental health support
- general: MongoDB University with unlimited free training and certifications
- general: Global Family Leave policy for all parents
- general: Flexible remote work across North America
- general: Annual learning stipend for professional development
- general: 401(k) matching and comprehensive health benefits
- general: Generous paid time off and volunteer time off programs
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