Senior Platform Engineer

MongoDB

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Posted
87 days ago
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About MongoDB

MongoDB is a leading American software company that develops and provides commercial support for a popular, source-available document database. Designed to handle unstructured and structured data natively, its platform is purpose-built for modern cloud applications, analytics, and AI experiences.

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TL;DR · Senior Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Infrastructure Engineering team, you will build and maintain a self-service internal development platform to help engineering teams reliably deploy and operate production services. You will collaborate with various teams to identify infrastructure requirements, develop automated tooling, and design platform services that provide necessary abstractions from cloud infrastructure. Your daily work involves writing automation, configuration management, and application code while authoring functional specifications for large projects. The role requires expertise in Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Crossplane, Terraform, Helm, Drone, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. You must possess strong skills in Linux, TCP/IP networking, and standard authentication protocols like OAuth and OIDC. This role focuses on solving complex distributed computing problems by improving developer productivity through high-quality software engineering and robust observability for internal platform services.

What does a Platform Engineer earn?

Median $150000 from 32 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and maintain self-service internal development platforms for engineering teams.
  • Design and implement platform services that provide abstraction from complex cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop automation, configuration management, and application code using Go and other backend languages.
  • Operate and manage production Kubernetes clusters and related infrastructure components.
  • Define and monitor service reliability through SLIs, SLOs, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Author functional specifications and scoping documents for large-scale platform projects.
  • Resolve incidents and respond to user requests regarding internal developer tooling.
  • Identify gaps in development workflows to create more efficient infrastructure solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Must be based in Gurugram for the hybrid working model.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud providers, preferably AWS.
  • Strong backend programming background with a preference for fluency in Go or other compiled/strongly-typed languages.
  • Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters and developing Kubernetes controllers.
  • Experience designing and implementing medium-to-large software projects including leading design reviews and mentoring others.
  • Proficiency in observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills.
  • Familiarity with standard authentication protocols like OAuth and OIDC.

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