Senior Staff Engineer, MongoDB Developer Productivity

<p>The Developer Productivity team supports the software development ecosystem used by hundreds of engineers to develop and maintain MongoDB Server and developer tools in a complex matrix of multi-platform self-hosted products and multi-cloud hosted environments. Our tools and services, as well as our domain expertise, ensure that MongoDB developers can ship high quality products quickly, confidently, and securely. </p> <p>As a senior staff engineer you’ll be responsible for helping shape the future of our developer ecosystem and ensure we take advantage of the rapidly-evolving engineering landscape. You will partner with engineering leadership across the company to identify system-wide opportunities to accelerate developer velocity and efficiency, enhancing smart data collection and integrating analytics assistants that produce actionable insights every step of the way. </p> <p>Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you like working on a strongly collaborative team that loves to experiment, have a passion for open source, and generally thrive on being a champion for software development best practices and data-informed decision making, this is the role for you.</p> <h3><strong>Candidate Profile</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Minimum 10 years of experience in the developer productivity domain in large engineering environments, including building, and operationalizing complex, reliable systems</li> <li>Strong experience supporting one or more of C++, Java, Go, Python, Rust, Node, Typescript</li> <li>Strong understanding of DevOps culture and tooling</li> <li>Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, common deployment models and infrastructure, and various techniques used to safely roll changes into production environments</li> <li>Hands-on experience implementing metrics and observability tools and best practices, as well as data processing pipeline technologies such as Iceberg, Trino, Kafka</li> <li>Proven track record of driving technical execution and vision for organizations with 50+ team members</li> <li>Skilled in advocating for and representing the needs of a 1000+ customer base to internal platform teams</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Drive strong operational excellence standards for internal software development tools and services, helping define golden paths that optimize the efficiency and velocity of our engineering organization</li> <li>Design software development systems to ensure best practices and champion industry standards</li> <li>Advise Engineering partners on technical implications of systems design with regards to complexity, testability, and maintainability</li> <li>Lead development and project management of some of the largest projects within MongoDB to improve developer productivity and software quality, particularly around data-driven insights and optimizations</li> <li>Provide technical mentorship and leadership to the Developer Productivity organization, promoting best practices and fostering team growth</li> </ul> <h3>Bonus points if the candidate has experience with:</h3> <ul> <li>Strong systems fundamentals, including testing and monitoring multi-threaded systems</li> <li>Performance profiling of complex systems</li> <li>Leveraging best of breed AI tools technologies in the developer productivity domain along with the necessary telemetry and analytics to measure effectiveness in a rapidly changing environment</li> <li>Experience supporting the development of database internals or core components for data processing systems</li> </ul> <h3>Success Measures</h3> <ul> <li>In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of at least one of the systems within the MongoDB developer ecosystem and fixed a few bugs</li> <li>In three months, you will have a broad understanding of the overall developer ecosystem and be taking on code review responsibilities</li> <li>In six months, you will have taken on code and des ... (truncated, view full listing at source)