Senior Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Infrastructure Engineering team and contribute to building and maintaining a self-service internal development platform. You will work with various engineering teams, understand their infrastructure needs, and develop self-service platform services and tools. The role involves using open-source tools like Go, AWS, Kubernetes, and others. This position can be based in our Dublin office or fully remote in specified European countries. You will collaborate with a distributed team, focusing on high-quality work and solving complex problems. MongoDB offers a supportive and enriching culture with various employee benefits.

Requirements

• Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and understands the benefits of collaboration
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, dependency injection, composition, and test driven development
• Experience designing/implementing medium/large scale software projects (strong preference for Go)
• Familiar with standard authentication protocols (e.g OAuth)
• Familiar with the development of web services and/or Kubernetes controllers
• Experienced performing deep technical analysis and fixing applications, systems, and networks
• Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills
• Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including development integrating with provider APIs
• Experience with configuration management tools and managing infrastructure through code
• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD workflows and tooling to deploy production services
• Experience running containers in a production environment, preferably Kubernetes based
• Proven experience with observability concepts and tooling, metrics, logging, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Has practical knowledge of delivering production level services with SLI/SLOs and understands how to measure, track and adjust them
• 5+ years of experience working in a similar role

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering teams across MongoDB to investigate gaps and limitations in existing development workflows and understand new infrastructure and platform requirements
• Design self-service platform services and developer tooling that focuses on reliability, usability, and provides the appropriate level of abstraction from cloud infrastructure
• Regularly write and review automation, configuration management, and application code
• Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services
• Own and operate much of the internal development platform that runs MongoDB
• Work on a distributed team that frequently interacts with remote engineers across multiple time zones (primarily PST/EST/GMT)

Preferred Qualifications

• Provides guidance and coaching to entry-mid level engineers
• Takes a software-driven approach to solving problems and routinely uses git to track progress

Benefits

• Employee affinity groups
• Fertility assistance
• A generous parental leave policy