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# Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Atlas

- **Company:** MongoDB
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $127,000.0 - $249,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Linux, Domain Name System (DNS), Python (Programming Language), Network Protocols, Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Software Engineering, Scripting, System Availability, Multi-Cloud, Build Management, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/DE98CF8FCB3B41D5B9ADEC18310B4037/job/

## About the Role

We are seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong infrastructure background. This role requires engineers to have a customer-first mindset to ensure that everything we do results in a stronger product and a better experience for all Atlas customers., * Have 5+ years of experience running critical systems at scale

 * Value efficiency in processes and operations, and display a preference for automation over manual processes ("allergic to ops work")
 * Be familiar with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and possess the ability to build and operate systems in a multi-cloud environment
 * A strong understanding of how to run a large scale Linux environment, including low level fundamentals
 * Firm grasp of at least one modern programming language, beyond basic scripting (Go, Ruby, Python)
 * Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)

Special Requirements:

 * Be a US Citizen

## Description

This role can sit in our NYC HQ on a hybrid basis, or it can be fully remote while working from a location based in either Eastern or Central time zones. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer for our SRE, Atlas team to support, maintain and grow the Atlas platform. As a senior SRE, you will be expected to be able to design & build complex systems, operate with autonomy and act as owner for everything you do.

The SRE Atlas team works alongside the various Atlas software engineering teams to provide expertise about running systems at scale, build new tooling and automation and perform essential maintenance of the Atlas fleet.

This is an SRE team, which means you can expect a highly hands-on approach, tackling the technical challenges of implementing large scale solutions that have the ability to impact our customer's most crucial workloads., * Participate in the development of a reliable and resilient multi-cloud platform that hosts business critical applications for a wide & varied range of customer applications

 * Collaborate with service-owning teams to provide internal support, solve technical challenges and adapt or build tooling to solve novel use cases in a generic fashion
 * Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to swiftly resolve issues related to any disruption of our customer facing Atlas fleet, ensuring minimal disruption and high availability


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