Staff Site Reliability Engineer

MongoDB

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bengaluru, India
Posted
52 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 · Staff Site Reliability Engineer

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer joins the Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical leadership and shape the architecture for a new platform designed to simplify building AI applications using MongoDB. This role focuses on establishing operational foundations, including capacity planning, multi-cloud expansion, incident response, and SLO discipline as the platform scales across regions. The engineer will manage the Kubernetes fleet, networking, observability, alerting, and tenant isolation while mentoring the SRE team. Key responsibilities include designing multi-cluster platforms and automating manual processes to ensure reliability for untrusted code execution. Candidates must possess over ten years of experience in distributed systems, proficiency in Python or Go, and deep expertise in Kubernetes. The role requires intimate familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure infrastructure primitives to solve complex problems related to large-scale deployment and multi-cloud operations.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the reliability architecture of the platform across multiple regions and cloud providers.
  • Set technical direction for capacity planning, multi-cloud expansion, and incident response.
  • Establish operational standards including on-call quality, incident response protocols, and SLO discipline.
  • Manage the infrastructure foundations including Kubernetes fleets, networking, observability, and tenant isolation.
  • Provide internal guidance to engineering teams on operability, capacity, and best practices.
  • Mentor and technically develop members of the SRE team.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve platform infrastructure issues.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems.
  • Must possess deep Kubernetes expertise, including designing or evolving multi-cluster platforms.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language is required.
  • Must understand workload isolation at the systems level, including containers and virtual machines.
  • Must be intimately familiar with the infrastructure primitives of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Must have a track record of driving infrastructure architecture across teams and mentoring engineers.
  • Candidate must be based in Bengaluru to accommodate the hybrid working model.

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