Senior Staff Engineer, MongoDB Developer Productivity

MongoDB•Seattle, WA

About The Position

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. 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. 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.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of experience in the developer productivity domain in large engineering environments, including building, and operationalizing complex, reliable systems
Strong experience supporting one or more of C++, Java, Go, Python, Rust, Node, Typescript
Strong understanding of DevOps culture and tooling
Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, common deployment models and infrastructure, and various techniques used to safely roll changes into production environments
Hands-on experience implementing metrics and observability tools and best practices, as well as data processing pipeline technologies such as Iceberg, Trino, Kafka
Proven track record of driving technical execution and vision for organizations with 50+ team members
Skilled in advocating for and representing the needs of a 1000+ customer base to internal platform teams

Nice To Haves

Strong systems fundamentals, including testing and monitoring multi-threaded systems
Performance profiling of complex systems
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
Experience supporting the development of database internals or core components for data processing systems

Responsibilities

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
Design software development systems to ensure best practices and champion industry standards
Advise Engineering partners on technical implications of systems design with regards to complexity, testability, and maintainability
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
Provide technical mentorship and leadership to the Developer Productivity organization, promoting best practices and fostering team growth