Design and build the infrastructure for a global cloud service that comprises hundreds of thousands of MongoDB clusters, processes a billion metrics per day, and replicates tens of billions of database writes to our backup service
Design, implement, and troubleshoot the automation and monitoring of services that seamlessly spans the globe - including several cloud providers
Become an expert in infrastructure performance, helping us optimize from the application level all the way through the firmware
Build for resilience. Our goal is that nobody's pager goes off, ever. Are we there yet? No. Are we really close? Very. While we work on that - participate in a weekly on-call rotation
Improve our infrastructure capabilities, optimizing for cost, simplicity, and maintainability
Requirements
3+ years of experience running a mission critical service at scale in a Linux environment
Firm grasp of at least one modern programming language, beyond basic scripting
Familiarity with web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Experience writing automation tools & eagerness to "automate all the things"
Nice to have
Experience building large applications from scratch, complete with CI/CD infrastructure
Experience in networking, security, hardware or OS performance tuning
Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure)
Experience managing kubernetes clusters or some other container orchestration infrastructure
Experience with observability of large scale distributed systems
About MongoDB
Benefits & conditions
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.
MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$111,000-$218,000 USD
About the company
The Site Reliability Engineering team designs and builds the global infrastructure on which we deploy our services, focusing on the above mentioned flagship MongoDB Atlas platform. As our customers grow and globalize, our services must satisfy demands for low-latency requests around the globe, and comply with various data sovereignty requirements. The SRE Team's mission is to build this increasingly complex infrastructure, while continually lowering the operational burden associated with it, and increasing our internal visibility into the health of the system. We are strong believers in infrastructure-as-code and self-healing systems. The SRE Team is fully integrated with all the other engineering teams, and the teams work closely together with a soft and traversable boundary between their areas of responsibility., 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 nearly 60,000 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, (https://www.mongodb.com/company) 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 (https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb) , 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 (https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture) , and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
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Good distractions
Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.
Moments
06:58 MIN
Introducing MongoDB Atlas as a unified solution
Protector Of The Realm
03:21 MIN
Using the AI engineer Devin to migrate from MongoDB
Postgres in the Age of AI (and Devin)
05:36 MIN
Introducing MongoDB Atlas and the Realm serverless platform
40 Minutes to Build a Serverless COVID-19 REST and GraphQL APIs
04:52 MIN
Handling operational challenges and infrastructure failures at scale
How building an industry DBMS differs from building a research one
01:58 MIN
Configuring a new backend in MongoDB Cloud
From Zero to Mobile Developer in 45 Minutes With SwiftUI
06:37 MIN
Understanding document databases and flexible schemas
NoSQL Data Modeling for Front-end Developers
05:03 MIN
Handling evolving data formats with a flexible schema
40 Minutes to Build a Serverless COVID-19 REST and GraphQL APIs
04:07 MIN
Taking the lead on a massive legacy modernization project