Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Atlas

MongoDB

Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$127,000–$249,000 / yr
Posted
13 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 · Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Atlas

Join our SRE Atlas team as a Senior Engineer in New York City or remotely within Eastern/Central time zones, where you will support and grow the Atlas platform by designing complex systems and operating with autonomy. You’ll collaborate closely with software engineering teams to provide expertise on running systems at scale, build new tooling, and maintain essential operations for our customer-facing fleet. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in critical system management, a preference for automation, proficiency in major cloud providers, and a strong grasp of Linux environments and web protocols. Familiarity with languages like Go, Ruby, or Python is required. This role involves developing a reliable multi-cloud platform, participating in on-call rotations to resolve issues swiftly, and collaborating to solve technical challenges and build generic tooling solutions for diverse customer applications.

What you'll do

  • Design and build complex systems for the Atlas platform to support large-scale operations.
  • Operate with autonomy as an owner of critical systems within the SRE team.
  • Provide technical expertise to software engineering teams on running systems at scale.
  • Develop new tooling and automation to maintain and enhance the Atlas fleet reliability.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve customer-facing issues promptly.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience running critical systems at scale.
  • Expertise in a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and multi-cloud environments.
  • Strong Linux environment management skills with low-level fundamentals understanding.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language beyond basic scripting.
  • Solid knowledge of web and network protocols including HTTP, TLS, DNS.
  • US citizenship required.

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