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

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently.

You will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs shape capacity plans and ensure the reliability durability and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll join a small senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture.

This role can be based out of our Boston New York City Raleigh Miami Pittsburgh or remotely in the United States while physically based in an Eastern or Central time zone location. 

• Have 6+ years of experience working on software development and operating distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python Go or a similar language
• Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale and are comfortable with durability consistency and recovery trade-offs.
• Possess a customer-focused mindset
• Value efficiency in processes and operations
• Prefer automation over manual processes. We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil
• Experience using and extending containerization technologies particularly Kubernetes to enhance application agility optimize resource utilization and accelerate time-to-market
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms including AWS Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure
• Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP DNS TLS routing)

• Work on our multi-tenant distributed storage systems balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
• Build for reliability making services and infrastructure available resilient fault-tolerant and self-healing
• Identify and configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health availability and performance
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving the storage infrastructure
• Become an expert in infrastructure performance helping us optimize from the application level all the way to the kernel

• Leading major architectural shifts such as moving from legacy storage stacks to new multi-tenant storage architectures including planning and executing large-scale data and workload migrations with tight availability and durability requirements
• Managing and scaling infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS GCP or Azure)
• Designing secure multi-tenant runtime environments at scale

MongoDB is built for change empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era enabling innovators to create transform and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform the most widely available globally distributed database on the market helps organizations modernize legacy workloads embrace innovation and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform MongoDB Atlas is the only globally distributed multi-cloud database and is available across AWS Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60000 customers including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups relying on MongoDB for their most important applications we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment guiding how and why we make decisions show up for each other and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB and help us make an impact on the world!

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Req ID: 1273396252

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