Senior Software Engineer, Observability

The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering and fastest growing product which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Customer Observability Team within Cloud Platforms. The Cloud InTel Team is responsible for helping users understand the health and performance of their MongoDB deployments and developing tools that look at customer operations and the database state to provide index and schema suggestions, aiming to improve database speed and efficiency. The team works on a variety of APIs and customer-facing UIs empowering MongoDB users to view and interact with their stored data.You will leverage technologies being developed by others within Observability and across MongoDB to rebuild and enhance our core diagnostic products.

This role can be based out of our Dublin office.

We're looking for someone who

• Enjoys collaboration and being part of a team


• Is approachable, curious, and intellectually honest


• Is a backend engineer with a willingness to take on frontend tasks or a full-stack developer with a bias towards backend


• Has written backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)


• Has experience with the design and architecture of a modern, scalable web application


• Enjoys chasing down difficult problems in a distributed environment and on an database diagnostic/operation level


• Always strives to expand their knowledge and keeps up to date with new technologies


• Is familiar with debugging and troubleshooting production issues

Nice to Haves

• Experience developing and writing code observability tools


• Previous work in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, particularly maintaining an ecosystem of dependencies


• Knowledge of database internals and tuning mechanisms, particularly indexing

Role Responsibilities

• Design, write and maintain customer observability code and features


• Contribute to and lead complex technical projects


• Investigate large scale distributed production issues


• Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices and design principles


• Mentor junior team members

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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 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!

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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

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