Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Atlas

MongoDB Inc.; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Atlas team. The role can be based in NYC with hybrid options or fully remote from the Eastern or Central time zones, focusing on designing, building, and operating scalable systems for the Atlas platform.

You will work hands-on to implement tooling, automation, and multi-cloud reliability, participating in on-call rotations to keep customer workloads available and secure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience running critical systems at scale.
• Automation-focused with a preference for reducing manual work.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and networking knowledge.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (Go, Ruby, Python).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable SRE infrastructure for Atlas platform.
• Operate with autonomy and own the services you manage.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure high availability.
• Collaborate with Atlas software teams to deliver tooling and automation.
• Contribute to reliability, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

Automation

Cloud proficiency

Linux

Programming (Go/Python/Ruby)

Networking basics

Education

BS in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

The Team

This role can sit in our NYC HQ on a hybrid basis, or it can be fully remote while working from a location based in either Eastern or Central time zones. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer for our SRE, Atlas team to support, maintain and grow the Atlas platform. As a senior SRE, you will be expected to be able to design & build complex systems, operate with autonomy and act as owner for everything you do.

The SRE Atlas team works alongside the various Atlas software engineering teams to provide expertise about running systems at scale, build new tooling and automation and perform essential maintenance of the Atlas fleet.

This is an SRE team, which means you can expect a highly hands-on approach, tackling the technical challenges of implementing large scale solutions that have the ability to impact our customer’s most crucial workloads.

Role Overview

We are seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong infrastructure background. This role requires engineers to have a customer-first mindset to ensure that everything we do results in a stronger product and a better experience for all Atlas customers.

The ideal candidate should

• Have 5+ years of experience running critical systems at scale
• Value efficiency in processes and operations, and display a preference for automation over manual processes (“allergic to ops work”)
• Be familiar with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and possess the ability to build and operate systems in a multi-cloud environment
• A strong understanding of how to run a large scale Linux environment, including low level fundamentals
• Firm grasp of at least one modern programming language, beyond basic scripting (Go, Ruby, Python)
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)

Special Requirements:

• Be a US Citizen

Expectations

• Participate in the development of a reliable and resilient multi-cloud platform that hosts business critical applications for a wide & varied range of customer applications
• Collaborate with service-owning teams to provide internal support, solve technical challenges and adapt or build tooling to solve novel use cases in a generic fashion
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to swiftly resolve issues related to any disruption of our customer facing Atlas fleet, ensuring minimal disruption and high availability

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, (https://www.mongodb.com/company) 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 (https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb) , 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 (https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture) , and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: 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, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$127,000—$249,000 USD