MongoDB is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join the MongoDB Cloud Team as a Site Reliability Engineer in London or remotely in the UK. Design and build global cloud infrastructure, optimize performance, and improve resilience. Become an expert in infrastructure performance and participate in on-call rotation.

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