MongoDB
Staff Engineer
MongoDB, Princeton, New Jersey, us, 08543
MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere-on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it's no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.
MongoDB is seeking highly technical candidates for a role on the Server Triage and Release team as a Staff Diagnostics Engineer. Server Triage and Release is a support and diagnostics focused group within the engineering organization.
In this role, you'll continually improve our diagnostic processes by contributing to applications and tools that support this mission. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to lead our response to investigations into some of the most challenging defects, collaborating with software engineers across the organization, as well as senior technical service engineers.
An ideal candidate has experience writing high quality application code, can communicate complex technical concepts well, and has great diagnostic intuition as it applies to complex distributed architectures.
This role can be based out of the New York Office or remotely working East Coast hours.
What you'll doLead complex projects to improve our ability to identify and respond to issuesWrite code to expand our diagnostic toolset, including contributing to and evolving electron apps that were developed by our team to investigate diagnostic data.Work with the Engineering and Technical Services teams to debug and reproduce bug reports from MongoDB users and escalate problems as neededAdvocate for a user-oriented perspective, advise on possible solutions and help MongoDB users understand complex technical issues and options to mitigate or resolve.
Ideally, you will have7+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on data management systems.Expertise in diagnosing thorny technical issues central to databases: distributed systems, consensus algorithms, data replication, query optimization, data storage, OS internals, concurrency and scheduling, networking, etc.Experience using and interpreting results of standard profiling tools, such as perf, eBPF, or gdb.Experience supporting production environments, and/or working directly with end-users to investigate and diagnose technical issuesAbility to:Design and steer fullstack projects, preferably in Typescript, Python, or GoStand for code quality and software design best practicesQuickly grok and clearly synthesize implications of system behaviorRead and understand the intent of code and stack traces in many languages, especially C++Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) as you will be working with users from all over the world with very diverse backgrounds, as well as with a highly technical engineering team.
Success MeasuresIn 3 Months:You are comfortable handling tickets with identifiable diagnostic signaturesYou can identify user reported tickets that lack sufficient diagnostic detailYou have made contributions to our diagnostic toolsYou are advising on metrics to use for assessing the health of a rollout
In 6 Months:You are mentoring members of the team on diagnostics and code qualityYou have made significant contributions to our diagnostic toolsYou are acting as a representative on internal rollout committeesYou can speak to strengths and weaknesses in product diagnostic capabilitiesYou can lead the response to some escalations from our experienced Technical Services Team
In 12 Months:You are running a project to improve our diagnostic toolsYou have a deep understanding in one or more Server componentsYou are consulting internally within MongoDB on efforts to adopt and leverage additional diagnostics such as OpenTelemetry
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.
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:$137,000 — $270,000 USD
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MongoDB is seeking highly technical candidates for a role on the Server Triage and Release team as a Staff Diagnostics Engineer. Server Triage and Release is a support and diagnostics focused group within the engineering organization.
In this role, you'll continually improve our diagnostic processes by contributing to applications and tools that support this mission. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to lead our response to investigations into some of the most challenging defects, collaborating with software engineers across the organization, as well as senior technical service engineers.
An ideal candidate has experience writing high quality application code, can communicate complex technical concepts well, and has great diagnostic intuition as it applies to complex distributed architectures.
This role can be based out of the New York Office or remotely working East Coast hours.
What you'll doLead complex projects to improve our ability to identify and respond to issuesWrite code to expand our diagnostic toolset, including contributing to and evolving electron apps that were developed by our team to investigate diagnostic data.Work with the Engineering and Technical Services teams to debug and reproduce bug reports from MongoDB users and escalate problems as neededAdvocate for a user-oriented perspective, advise on possible solutions and help MongoDB users understand complex technical issues and options to mitigate or resolve.
Ideally, you will have7+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on data management systems.Expertise in diagnosing thorny technical issues central to databases: distributed systems, consensus algorithms, data replication, query optimization, data storage, OS internals, concurrency and scheduling, networking, etc.Experience using and interpreting results of standard profiling tools, such as perf, eBPF, or gdb.Experience supporting production environments, and/or working directly with end-users to investigate and diagnose technical issuesAbility to:Design and steer fullstack projects, preferably in Typescript, Python, or GoStand for code quality and software design best practicesQuickly grok and clearly synthesize implications of system behaviorRead and understand the intent of code and stack traces in many languages, especially C++Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) as you will be working with users from all over the world with very diverse backgrounds, as well as with a highly technical engineering team.
Success MeasuresIn 3 Months:You are comfortable handling tickets with identifiable diagnostic signaturesYou can identify user reported tickets that lack sufficient diagnostic detailYou have made contributions to our diagnostic toolsYou are advising on metrics to use for assessing the health of a rollout
In 6 Months:You are mentoring members of the team on diagnostics and code qualityYou have made significant contributions to our diagnostic toolsYou are acting as a representative on internal rollout committeesYou can speak to strengths and weaknesses in product diagnostic capabilitiesYou can lead the response to some escalations from our experienced Technical Services Team
In 12 Months:You are running a project to improve our diagnostic toolsYou have a deep understanding in one or more Server componentsYou are consulting internally within MongoDB on efforts to adopt and leverage additional diagnostics such as OpenTelemetry
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.
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:$137,000 — $270,000 USD
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