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Staff Technical Program Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Backend Developer • Principal • On-site • Full-time • 📍 Cork +2

As a TPM for SRE at MongoDB, you will partner with SRE leaders and engineers to scale the platform that underpins all of MongoDB's cloud products. You will drive program execution, strengthen production reliability practices, and coordinate cross-functional efforts across US and EMEA teams. Success means smoother launches, clearer roadmaps, stronger reliability metrics and an SRE organization better equipped to deliver predictably at scale. The role can be based in the Dublin or Cork office, or remotely in Ireland.

Responsibilities

  • Define program scope, milestones and success criteria with SRE engineers and leaders; manage dependencies and track work in Jira
  • Lead change management and launch readiness programs; help define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs
  • Use incident data, metrics and capacity signals to drive prioritization and continuous improvement
  • Align SRE with Security, Compliance, Cloud platform and other engineering teams; coordinate cross-team incident response
  • Design lightweight frameworks and communication patterns that help SRE deliver reliably at scale

Requirements

  • 8+ years in technical program management, engineering management or a comparable technical role partnering with software engineering teams
  • Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-team platform initiatives through ambiguity and change
  • Strong knowledge of production change management, the software development lifecycle and reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs)
  • Skilled at shaping roadmaps and managing dependencies
  • Able to query and interpret metrics, logs or other data sources to inform decisions and communicate risk

Nice to have

  • Hands-on or close-partner experience with Kubernetes, cloud networking or observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)
  • Prior experience working with or alongside SRE teams
  • Background in large-scale cloud infrastructure or platform engineering
  • Familiarity with MongoDB Atlas or other modern cloud database platforms

Soft skills

Excellent communicator - clear, concise and calm - with engineers, cross-functional partners and executivesLow-ego and highly collaborativeMotivated by end-to-end ownership of hard problems

What we offer

  • Employee affinity groups
  • Fertility assistance
  • Generous parental leave policy
  • Support for career growth

About the company

MongoDB is built for change, empowering customers and employees to innovate at the speed of the market. Its cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is a globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform available across AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, serving over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100.