Software Engineer, Fleet Management | MongoDB | US or Remote

The Briefed; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and stock purchase program

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave (20 weeks)

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Platform Engineer for its Platform Engineering team. You will build and maintain a scalable, secure runtime on Kubernetes, supporting product needs across MongoDB’s multi-cloud infrastructure.

You will provide internal Kubernetes ecosystem support and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve critical issues. You will drive blameless post-mortems and systemic fixes, prioritizing automation to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language, with a strong commitment to code quality and testing (unit, integration, and E2E)
• Deep experience using and extending containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of Linux internals and networking concepts (filesystems, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS)
• A customer-focused mindset that treats internal developers as primary users
• Strong operational ownership, with a track record of debugging complex production issues and driving them to resolution
• A preference for automation over manual operations work
• Must be a US citizen

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a scalable, secure runtime environment on Kubernetes that supports product needs across MongoDB
• Provide internal support for the Kubernetes ecosystem, partnering with engineering teams to solve domain-specific problems
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve critical issues
• Run blameless post-mortems and dedicate engineering time to systemic fixes so the same issue never pages you twice

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Containerization

Linux internals

Networking (TCP/IP DNS TLS)

Testing (unit/integration/E2E)

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Gatekeeper

Kyverno

CRDs/Operators

CSI

Terraform

Crossplane

ACK (AWS Controllers for Kubernetes)

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Platform Engineering is the department within SRE that runs MongoDB’s critical infrastructure, including its multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, load balancing, and observability and alerting systems. The Fleet Management team manages the full lifecycle of MongoDB’s Kubernetes fleet and the components that keep clusters reliable and secure, such as CoreDNS, cert-manager, and Gatekeeper. As infrastructure scales, the team is migrating from Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code to an Operator-driven lifecycle management model. You will join a small team of software engineers with a strong bias toward building software that eliminates toil.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a scalable, secure runtime environment on Kubernetes that supports product needs across MongoDB
• Provide internal support for the Kubernetes ecosystem, partnering with engineering teams to solve domain-specific problems
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve critical issues
• Run blameless post-mortems and dedicate engineering time to systemic fixes so the same issue never pages you twice

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language, with a strong commitment to code quality and testing (unit, integration, and E2E)
• Deep experience using and extending containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of Linux internals and networking concepts (filesystems, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS)
• A customer-focused mindset that treats internal developers as primary users
• Strong operational ownership, with a track record of debugging complex production issues and driving them to resolution
• A preference for automation over manual operations work
• Must be a US citizen
• Education: Not specified

Skills

Technical Skills

• Go, Python
• Kubernetes, containerization
• Linux internals and networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS)
• Unit, integration, and E2E testing
• Observability and production debugging

Soft Skills

• Customer-focused mindset
• Operational ownership
• Blameless, systemic problem solving
• Collaboration with engineering teams

Nice to Have

• Experience designing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments from first principles
• Proficiency with Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Helm, Kustomize, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, CRDs/Operators, CRI, and CSI
• Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Proficiency provisioning infrastructure with Terraform, Crossplane, and AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
• Advanced Linux internals relevant to containers, such as namespaces and cgroups

Benefits

Benefits for eligible U.S.-based employees may include:

• Equity and an employee stock purchase program
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks of fully paid, gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage and other health benefits