Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Storage Layer Services (SLS)
MongoDB's Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer, building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that enhance the Atlas storage stack. As a founding member of a small, senior SRE team, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer underpinning Atlas. The role can be based in the Dublin or Cork office, or remotely in Ireland.
Responsibilities
- ▹Work on multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
- ▹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 the storage infrastructure
- ▹Become an expert in infrastructure performance, optimizing from the application level all the way to the kernel
Requirements
- ▹6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
- ▹Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language
- ▹Experience operating or supporting stateful storage or database systems at scale, with comfort around durability, consistency, and recovery trade-offs
- ▹Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes
- ▹Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure
- ▹Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing)
Nice to have
- ▹Experience leading major architectural shifts, such as moving from legacy storage stacks to new multi-tenant storage architectures, including large-scale data and workload migrations with tight availability and durability requirements
- ▹Experience managing and scaling infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- ▹Experience designing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments at scale
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Employee affinity groups
- ▹Fertility assistance
- ▹Generous parental leave policy
About the company
MongoDB has redefined the database for the AI era. Its unified database platform is the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, and its cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database, available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. MongoDB has offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100. MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.