# Staff Engineer, Observability

**Company**: MongoDB
**Location**: Dublin, Ireland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Staff engineer to design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack for the MongoDB platform.

Tens of thousands of customers depend on our Observability stack to monitor their database clusters and to generate actionable alerts to safeguard critical workloads.

This is an opportunity to join a team that is responsible for all Observability systems that support metrics, metric visualization, logs, traces, and alerts for MongoDB.

As a Staff engineer on the team, you’ll work closely with other SWE, Product and SRE teams to promote and implement best practices in instrumenting and monitoring their services.

Responsibilities:

- Help build and architect systems for the mission-critical observability platform, leading the architecture and implementation of components that drive performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and resiliency

- Design and implement observability improvements that enable MongoDB engineers and customers to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of production issues

- Handle production customer escalations from Technical Support team and coach teammates to do the same

- Write production-ready database code, improve the existing code, and mentor their team to write higher quality code

- Own areas of code that the Observability Team maintains, ensuring it achieves a high standard for quality and maintainability

- Diagnose test failures, identify bugs in existing code, fix them, and prevent bugs from being introduced in new code

Success Measures:

- In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of MongoDB observability, and fixed a few bugs

- In three months, you will have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major release of MongoDB, and diagnosed and fixed a few customer or testing-reported issues

- In six months, you will have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features

- In twelve months, you will be leading the development of new features and initiatives, helping to mentor engineers on the team, and using your experience to drive the long-term technical roadmap of the Observability Team

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- observability
- database internals
- performance profiling
- multi-threaded programming
- information security management

### Nice to have
- indexing
- database performance tuning
- VictoriaMetrics
- Splunk
- Flink
- WarpStream/Kafka
- Java
- Golang
- Fluentbit

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