Staff Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build and architect systems for the mission-critical observability platform, leading components that improve performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resiliency.
• Design and implement observability improvements that help engineers and customers diagnose production issues.
• Handle production customer escalations and coach teammates.
• Write production-ready database code, improve existing code, and mentor engineers on code quality.
• Own Observability Team code areas, maintaining high standards for security, durability, availability, performance, and maintainability.
• Diagnose test failures, identify and fix bugs, and prevent regressions.
• Investigate performance impacts of code changes.
• Interview candidates for advanced software engineering positions.
• Maintain expertise in database and observability developments.
• Lead development and project management for large company-wide projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams, Product Management, and Engineering leadership on initiatives, technical direction, and roadmaps.
• Improve unit and integration tests.
• Work with customers and support engineers and participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed or highly concurrent mission-critical software systems.
• Expert-level programming experience with Go, Java, C, or C++.
• Experience running latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems.
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multithreaded programming and performance profiling.
• Familiarity with database internals or core components for data-processing systems.
• Familiarity with observability ecosystems and best practices.
• Excellent technical communication and collaboration skills, including mentoring engineers.
• Strong time and project management skills.
• Understanding of information security management.

Nice to Have

• Indexing or database performance-tuning experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• MongoDB provides employee support and benefits including employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and parental leave.
• The role uses a hybrid working model and is intended for candidates based in Dublin.