Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Cloud Site Reliability Engineering Team as a Site Reliability Engineer to design and build global infrastructure for cloud services, ensuring low-latency requests and compliance with data sovereignty requirements.

Requirements

• You have experience running a mission critical service at scale
• An understanding of information security issues
• Prior experience running critical production systems in a Linux environment
• Firm grasp of at least one modern programming language, beyond basic scripting
• Solid understanding of 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Generous compensation package (top-range salary: we pay in the top 95% percentile and our package includes equity and generous benefits)
• Opportunities to learn on the job (time to up skill in new technologies)
• High level of independence in your day to day work