Senior Site Reliability Engineer

MongoDB

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Hybrid
Location
Gurugram, India
Posted
51 days ago
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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 Site Reliability Engineer

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction and build operational foundations for a new platform designed to simplify building AI applications using MongoDB. This role focuses on enabling deployment at scale, improving performance, and ensuring the reliability of distributed systems infrastructure. Key responsibilities include operating multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure, building self-healing services, configuring metrics for incident detection, and participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation while mentoring early-career engineers. The candidate must possess expertise in Python or Go, Linux internals, networking concepts like TCP/IP and DNS, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. Experience with Kubernetes networking tools like Istio or Cilium is preferred. The role addresses the technical challenge of managing distributed systems infrastructure to support high-scale, multi-tenant workloads for AI applications.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Operate and improve the multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure that runs customer workloads.
  • Build resilient, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems to ensure high availability for distributed services.
  • Configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health, performance, and availability.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving platform infrastructure.
  • Mentor early-career SREs and contribute to the team's evolving operational practices.
  • Automate manual tasks to improve operational simplicity and efficiency across the platform.
  • Manage core infrastructure components including networking, observability, alerting, and tenant isolation.

What we're looking for

  • Strong background in software development and operating distributed systems.
  • 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language.
  • Experience operating Kubernetes in production and debugging at the node and network levels.
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong understanding of Linux internals and networking concepts like TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and routing.
  • Strong verbal and written technical communication skills with a customer-focused mindset.
  • Ability to work from the Gurugram office for a hybrid work model.

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