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Software Engineer, Networking & Observability Seattle

Job in Seattle, King County, Washington, 98127, USA
Listing for: MongoDB
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-20
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer, DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 125000 - 150000 USD Yearly USD 125000.00 150000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Observability Seattle; United States

Mongo

DB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, Mongo

DB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use Mongo

DB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust Mongo

DB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Join and be a part of leading the Mongo

DB Networking Observability team, helping build the core of a distributed database! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between cooperating distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable. Networking Observability’s responsibilities include improving Mongo

DB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization and building low-overhead observability features.

Our team currently consists of six engineers, some located in New York City and some fully remote. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the performance and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall. Recently we’ve worked on POCs and performance tests for new architectural directions in our networking stack, and are integrating Open Telemetry to accelerate investigation of issues or performance bottlenecks in our tests.

Are you excited to help the Mongo

DB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

Note:

This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.

Candidate Profile
  • 10+ years of experience building distributed systems
  • Experienced and passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
  • Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. Experience in C++ is required
  • Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices play out in a system like MongoDB
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues and mentor junior engineers
  • Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity
  • Good computer networking fundamentals and a desire to improve them
  • Has demonstrated industry success or academic research in areas such as
  • High performance / low latency networking
  • Performance tuning
  • Building high performance distributed and concurrent systems.

Mongo

DB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

Mongo

DB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Mongo

DB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

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