Role overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Fleet Management

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities

  • Contribute to developing and maintaining a scalable and secure runtime environment on top of Kubernetes that supports product needs across MongoDB
  • Provide internal support for our Kubernetes ecosystem, partnering with engineering teams to help them solve domain-specific problems
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve critical issues
  • Prioritize blameless post-mortems and dedicate engineering time to systemic fixes, ensuring you aren’t paged for the same issue twice

Details

  • Prioritize blameless post-mortems and dedicate engineering time to systemic fixes, ensuring you aren’t paged for the same issue twice

You may be a good fit if you

  • Have 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
  • Are proficient in Go, Python, or a similar language, with a strong commitment to code quality and testing practices (writing unit, integration, and E2E tests)
  • Have deep experience using and extending containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes
  • Have a solid understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., filesystems, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS)
  • Possess a customer focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users
  • Have strong operational ownership, including a track record of debugging complex production issues and driving them to resolution
  • Prefer automation over manual processes ("allergic to ops work")
  • We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias toward building software solutions to eliminate toil

Strong candidates may also have experience with

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