Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Fabric team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Lead and lead a team in building and maintaining a robust, secure, and efficient multi-cloud network infrastructure. Leverage your expertise in networking, distributed systems, and automation to ensure system resilience, scalability, and reliability. This role requires 10+ years of experience in software and distributed systems, with deep networking expertise, and 2+ years of team management experience. The ideal candidate possesses a customer-focused mindset, values automation, and is familiar with modern cloud infrastructure. The position offers hybrid work accommodations or fully remote options within North America and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with deep expertise in networking fundamentals and a good understanding of how the internet works, e.g. TCP/IP (including IPv6), DNS, TLS/mTLS, BGP, tunnels, overlays, and SDN principles
• Have 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams, fostering a positive team culture and handling career growth and performance conversations
• Possess a customer-focused mindset, driving improvements that benefit end-users
• Value efficiency in processes and operations, and display a strong preference for automation over manual processes (“allergic to ops work”)
• Be intimately familiar with modern cloud-based infrastructure and the network design primitives of at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP, e.g. VPCs, subnetting, routing, VPNs, peering, private link / private service connect, and CDNs
• Have a strong knowledge of service mesh and load-balancing concepts, and be eager to implement these in a multi-cloud environment

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers, setting direction, removing blockers, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals
• Oversee the development of a reliable and resilient multi-cloud globally-connected network that is crucial for MongoDB’s services
• Collaborate with service-owning teams to provide internal support, addressing technical issues and offering guidance on best practices for service-to-service connectivity
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to swiftly resolve issues related to network architecture and service-to-service connectivity, ensuring minimal disruption and high availability

Benefits

• 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
• Health benefits offerings
• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program