Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Storage Layer Service

MongoDB

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Cork, Ireland
Posted: 101 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 16 roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Storage Layer Service

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Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Storage Layer Service joins the Storage Layer Services team to help re-architect the MongoDB cloud storage layer. This role involves leading a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of the organization while executing a multi-year roadmap for next-generation cloud storage architecture. Key responsibilities include defining SLOs, shaping capacity plans, ensuring reliability and durability, and managing technical roadmaps for multi-tenant distributed storage systems. The manager will perform hands-on work such as architectural design reviews and pull request reviews while fostering a culture of automation to eliminate toil. Required expertise includes experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes ecosystems, containerization technologies, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Crossplane. The role focuses on the technical challenge of managing stateful storage at scale across multi-cloud environments while ensuring high availability and consistency.

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Kubernetes Terraform Crossplane SRE Distributed Systems Containerization AWS GCP Azure Automation

What you'll do

Build and lead a team of 6-8 SRE engineers while managing their career growth and performance.
Define the technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for multi-tenant distributed storage systems.
Perform hands-on technical work including architectural design reviews and code reviews.
Guide the team through complex operational challenges and infrastructure issues.
Act as the primary liaison between SRE teams and other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment.
Define SLOs and manage capacity plans for the MongoDB Atlas storage layer.
Automate manual processes to eliminate toil and optimize team workflows.
Translate complex business requirements into actionable, phased technical roadmaps.

What we're looking for

Must have at least 10 years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems.
Must have at least 2 years of experience managing engineering teams.
Experience operating or supporting stateful storage or database systems at scale is required.
Deep technical familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystems, containerization technologies, and modern IaC tooling like Terraform or Crossplane is required.
Ability to translate complex business and engineering requirements into actionable, phased technical roadmaps.
Strong technical communication skills in both verbal and written formats are required.
Experience managing and scaling infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is preferred.
Experience leading major architectural shifts and large-scale data migrations is preferred.

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