Remote Staff Engineer

Summary

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 cooperating distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City, NY for our hybrid working model.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, including extensive experience with networking
• Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality, written in C++ or another systems programming language
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Passion for the theory and practice of system design for large-scale distributed systems, as well as hands-on or academic experience in the domain
• Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB
• Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as: High performance / low latency networking, Performance tuning, Tracing of distributed systems, Rearchitecting highly available and scalable distributed systems (eg: decoupling storage and compute, improving cluster elasticity and utilization)

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• Employee affinity groups
• Fertility assistance
• Generous parental leave policy