Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Storage Layer Services (SLS)

MongoDB

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Remote
Salary
$126,000–$248,000 / yr
Posted
13 days ago

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Storage Layer Services (SLS)

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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) joining MongoDB’s small, senior team in Boston, New York City, Raleigh, Miami, Pittsburgh, or remotely within the Eastern/Central time zones, you will play a pivotal role in defining Service Level Objectives and shaping capacity plans for Atlas storage services. Your day-to-day responsibilities include building reliable, durable, and operationally safe systems, identifying critical metrics to ensure service health, and participating in 24/7 on-call rotations. You’ll work with distributed storage systems, optimize infrastructure performance from the application level down to the kernel, and leverage Python or Go for automation and efficiency. This role requires experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, Linux internals, and networking concepts, as you tackle the multi-year roadmap of MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture at scale.

Skills

Python Go Kubernetes AWS GCP Azure Linux TCP/IP DNS TLS Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for storage services.
  • Shape capacity plans to ensure reliability and durability of the storage layer.
  • Build self-healing infrastructure to maintain service availability and resilience.
  • Configure key metrics to detect incidents and measure service performance.
  • Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations to resolve critical issues promptly.

What we're looking for

  • At least 6 years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language.
  • Experience with stateful storage or database systems at scale.
  • Strong customer focus and efficiency in processes and operations.
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Understanding of Linux OS internals and networking concepts.
  • Preference for automation over manual processes.

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