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About this Software Engineer 3, Networking & Observability role at MongoDB

MongoDB · Onsite · New York City; United States

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, and 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. Recently, we’ve improved connection handling, explored new networking architectures, and 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 further enhance our observability stack using open observability frameworks.

Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely within the United States and Canada.

Candidate Profile

  • 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 their 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

Position Expectations

  • 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 features

About MongoDB

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. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req ID: 3273516950

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$106,000$209,000 USD
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How this Software Engineer salary compares

This role pays $157,500/yrbelow the typical range for Software Engineer roles.

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About MongoDB

MongoDB is the next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data. The world’s most sophisticated organizations, from cutting-edge startups to the largest companies, use MongoDB to create applications never before possible at a fraction of the cost of legacy databases. MongoDB is the fastest-growing database ecosystem, with over 9 million downloads, thousands of customers, and over 750 technology and service partners. Learn more at www.mongodb.com.

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