Senior MongoDB Platform Engineer — Remote & Atlas Expert

Allstate; Indiana; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking an experienced Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer to join the Database Engineering team. The role focuses on designing, operating, and modernizing the enterprise MongoDB platform across on‑premises and Atlas PaaS.

The ideal candidate will have deep MongoDB expertise, strong Linux administration skills, and hands‑on experience with replica sets, sharded clusters, HA, disaster recovery, and capacity planning. Overnight US shift is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of database administration, database engineering, or data‑platform engineering experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on MongoDB administration and engineering experience.
• Strong Linux administration experience; RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution is preferred.
• Deep understanding of MongoDB architecture, storage engine behavior, replication, sharding, configuration, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Hands‑on experience with MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, point‑in‑time recovery, and capacity planning.
• Hands‑on experience administering or engineering MongoDB Atlas, including cluster deployment, scaling, backup, monitoring, networking, access management, and migration activities.
• Strong skills in MongoDB query analysis, indexing, aggregation pipelines, schema and data modeling, and workload optimization.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database, operating system, storage, network, and connectivity issues in production environments.
• Experience planning and executing database upgrades, migrations, patching, platform changes, and production releases.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders and work effectively across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, administer, and support enterprise MongoDB environments across production and non-production landscapes, including on‑premises deployments and MongoDB Atlas PaaS.
• Lead MongoDB installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
• Design and operate MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters, including topology, storage, networking, and capacity configurations.
• Define and maintain MongoDB engineering standards, reference architectures, build procedures, operational controls, and best practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews and advise application teams on data modeling, indexing, scalability, resilience, connectivity, and operational readiness.

Skills

MongoDB

Linux

Replication

Sharding

Atlas

Automation

CI/CD

Security

Tools

MongoDB Atlas

Monitoring

Job description

Allstate is seeking an experienced Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer to join the Database Engineering team. The role focuses on designing, operating, and modernizing the enterprise MongoDB platform across on‑premises and Atlas PaaS.

The ideal candidate will have deep MongoDB expertise, strong Linux administration skills, and hands‑on experience with replica sets, sharded clusters, HA, disaster recovery, and capacity planning. Overnight US shift is required.