Job Description
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.
As the Lead Site Reliability Engineer for SLS 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 help grow and lead 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.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model.
Responsibilities- Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers fostering a positive culture handling career growth and performance conversations and proactively removing blockers
- Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
- Contribute through hands-on technical work such as leading architectural design reviews reviewing PRs and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges
- Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations
- Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems with 2+ years managing engineering teams
- Possess a customer-focused mindset treating internal developers as your primary users
- Value efficiency in processes and operations and have a track record of optimizing team workflows
- Prefer automation over manual processes fostering a culture of building software solutions to eliminate toil
- Have deep technical familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystems containerization technologies and modern IaC tooling (e.g. Terraform Crossplane or Operators) so you can effectively guide the team's technical decisions
- Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale and are comfortable with durability consistency and recovery trade-offs
- Excel at translating complex business and engineering requirements into actionable phased technical roadmaps
- Have a high level of empathy responsibility ownership and accountability
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
- 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.
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Req ID: 1273396229
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set experience qualifications and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity participation in the employee stock purchase program flexible paid time off 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave fertility and adoption assistance 401(k) plan mental health counseling access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage and health benefits offerings. Please note the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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04/20/2026
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