Senior Site Reliability Engineer
MongoDB · Posted Sep 11
Modern database platform, cloud database-as-a-service, vector search, and developer data services
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About the role
MongoDB is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its growing Gurugram Products & Technology team, providing technical direction, shaping architecture, and building the key operational foundations of a new platform that makes it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. The platform's SRE team owns the operational foundations — the Kubernetes fleet, networking, observability and alerting, and tenant isolation — enabling deployment at scale of AI applications and improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day, valuing intellectual curiosity and honesty in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition.
What you will do
- Operate and improve the multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure that runs customer workloads
- Build for reliability, making services and infrastructure available, resilient, fault-tolerant, and self-healing
- Identify and configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health, availability, and performance
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving platform infrastructure
- Mentor early-career SREs and contribute to the team’s operational practices as it grows
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong background in software development and operating distributed systems
- 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, with proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production and debugging below the abstraction layer, including scheduling, cluster networking, and node-level issues
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure
- Strong understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and routing
- Customer-focused mindset and strong verbal and written technical communication skills, with a desire to collaborate with colleagues
- Strong bias for efficient processes, operational simplicity, and automation over manual work
- Eager to learn, with a strong technical background
Preferred qualifications
- Bonus points for experience with Kubernetes networking, such as Istio or Cilium, service mesh or edge load balancing in production, secure multi-tenant runtime environments at scale, multi-cloud infrastructure management, and virtualization or workload isolation technologies
Benefits and support
- Committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Generous parental leave policy
- We value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys
- MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process
- MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer
About MongoDB
MongoDB is a modern, general-purpose database platform designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and enterprises globally. Its flagship cloud database service, MongoDB Atlas, supports flexible document models, vector search, and transactional capabilities built for modern cloud and AI-driven workloads.
- Industry
- Database Software
- Company size
- 5741 employees
- Founded
- 2007
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $311M raised
- 2015-01-01Series F$80M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Customer Officer
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