2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement mission-critical observability platform components focused on performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, resiliency, security, durability, availability, and maintainability.
- Design observability improvements for diagnosing production issues across metrics, logs, traces, events, and alerts.
- Write, improve, review, and maintain production-ready database and observability code.
- Diagnose test failures, fix bugs, prevent regressions, and investigate the performance impact of code changes.
- Handle production customer escalations, work with support engineers, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, interview advanced software engineering candidates, and promote engineering best practices.
- Lead development and project management for large cross-company initiatives and collaborate with Product Management and engineering leadership on product direction and roadmaps.
- Develop expertise in database and observability developments and champion unit and integration testing.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed or highly concurrent mission-critical software systems using C, C++, Java, or Rust.
- Experience operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems.
- Strong systems fundamentals, including multithreaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level programming ability.
- Familiarity with database internals or core components for data processing systems.
- Familiarity with observability ecosystems and best practices.
- Excellent technical communication, collaboration, mentoring, time management, and project management skills.
- Ability to assess project cost and complexity realistically.
- Understanding of information security management.
- Indexing or database performance-tuning experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model for candidates based in Dublin.
- Supportive and inclusive culture with employee affinity groups.
- Fertility assistance and generous parental leave policy.
- Disability accommodations are available during the application and interview process.
About MongoDB
MongoDB builds the MongoDB document database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database service for application developers and enterprises. Its business model centers on cloud consumption (Atlas), commercial subscriptions, and support, with tooling for migration, synchronization, and disaster recovery across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ and widely used across industries worldwide.