[Remote] Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Fleet Management

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MongoDB is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Fleet Management team. The role focuses on developing and maintaining a scalable, secure Kubernetes runtime, supporting internal engineering teams, and improving reliability through on-call response and systemic fixes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing and maintaining a scalable and secure runtime environment on top of Kubernetes that supports product needs across MongoDB
• Provide internal support for our Kubernetes ecosystem, partnering with engineering teams to help them solve domain-specific problems
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve critical issues
• Prioritize blameless post-mortems and dedicate engineering time to systemic fixes, ensuring you aren’t paged for the same issue twice

Skills

• Have 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
• Are proficient in Go, Python, or a similar language, with a strong commitment to code quality and testing practices (writing unit, integration, and E2E tests)
• Have deep experience using and extending containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes
• Have a solid understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., filesystems, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS)
• Possess a customer focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users
• Have strong operational ownership, including a track record of debugging complex production issues and driving them to resolution
• Prefer automation over manual processes ("allergic to ops work")
• Be a US Citizen
• Designing and implementing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments from first principles
• Proficiency with Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Helm, Kustomize, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and CRDs/Operators, CRI, CSI
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Proficiency in provisioning infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Crossplane, and AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
• Advanced Linux systems internals and networking concepts specifically relevant to containers, such as namespaces and cgroups

Benefits

• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program
• 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

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