Staff Technical Program Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

MongoDB

Remote

Quick summary

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

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $194k
This role $187k
$111k most similar roles pay here $263k

This role pays less than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$222,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $187k versus about $194k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 similar postings.

Employer

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.

MongoDB currently has 287 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $126,500–$209,000 across 104 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at MongoDB

At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Technical Program Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Site Reliability Engineering at MongoDB, you will collaborate with SRE leaders and engineers to scale the company’s cloud platform, ensuring smoother launches and enhanced production reliability through clear roadmaps and robust metrics. You will manage program execution by defining scope, milestones, and success criteria while coordinating cross-functional efforts across US and EMEA teams. Key responsibilities include leading change management, operationalizing service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs), and building scalable systems that enable independent team execution. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in technical program management or a related field, with expertise in production change management, software development lifecycle, and reliability metrics. Proficiency in Jira, strong communication skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes or observability stacks are beneficial. This role is pivotal for driving MongoDB’s next phase of growth by addressing complex, multi-team challenges and fostering collaboration across engineering, security, compliance, and other departments.

What you'll do

  • Define program scope, milestones, and success criteria with SRE engineers.
  • Lead change management and launch readiness programs for production reliability.
  • Coordinate cross-team incident response and ensure clear follow-through.
  • Design frameworks and communication patterns to enable independent execution by teams.
  • Manage dependencies across platform teams and deliver projects on time.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in technical program management or engineering management.
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale, cross-team platform initiatives through ambiguity and change.
  • Strong knowledge of production change management, software development lifecycle, and reliability metrics (SLOs/SLIs).
  • Skilled at shaping roadmaps and managing dependencies across teams.
  • Excellent communication skills for clear, concise interaction with engineers, partners, and executives.
  • Hands-on experience or close partnership with Kubernetes, cloud networking, or observability stacks preferred.
  • Background in large-scale cloud infrastructure or platform engineering beneficial.

More like this

Similar roles

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Navan

Redwood City, CA +1 39 days ago
AWS Terraform CloudFormation Jenkins GitHub Actions NewRelic DataDog Docker CI/CD Kubernetes PostgreSQL Python Go Prometheus Grafana

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

TransUnion

Chicago +4 53 days ago $112,500$187,500
GCP Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Terraform Python Bash Go VPC DNS Load Balancing Firewall Rules VPN Private Service Connect LLM Orchestration Vector Databases Model Serving Infrastructure AI Observability
Hybrid

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

CME Group

Chicago, IL 44 days ago $132,100$220,100
GCP Kubernetes Python Terraform ArgoCD Go Node.js CI/CD Distributed Systems Generative AI Agile PostgreSQL GitOps CICD SLI SLO Error Budgets
Hybrid

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

CME Group

Chicago, IL 36 days ago $132,100$220,100
Google Cloud Services Terraform GKE CloudFormation Chef Java Python Bash Go Typescript Rust CI/CD OpenTelemetry Prometheus SRE Kubernetes Docker GitOps Security frameworks Observability
Hybrid