Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mongodb Software India Private Limited; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB Software India Private Limited is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Gurugram to provide technical direction and shape the platform's architecture. You will help deploy AI applications at scale and improve the performance and reliability of distributed systems infrastructure.

You will manage the Kubernetes fleet, observability, and tenant isolation, while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to scalable operations for a new platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Production Kubernetes experience, debugging at cluster/node level.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Solid Linux internals and networking basics.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve the multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build for reliability, resilience, and self-healing services.
• Define metrics to measure health, availability and performance.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for platform issues.
• Mentor junior SREs and shape operational practices.

Skills

Kubernetes in prod

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Cloud platforms

Linux networking

On-call management

Observability

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, shape architecture, and build key operational foundations of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for enabling deployment at scale of AI applications and improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product.

The platform's SRE team owns the operational foundations: the Kubernetes fleet, networking, observability and alerting, and tenant isolation.

Position Expectations

• 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

Qualifications

• 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
• 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
• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy , we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB , and help us make an impact on the world!

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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.