Role overview

Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff)

Requirements and responsibilities

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The ideal candidate should

  • Have 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language
  • Proven experience building and operating large-scale continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Possess a customer-focused mindset
  • Value efficiency in processes and operations
  • Prefer automation over manual process (“allergic to ops work”). We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil
  • Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to enhance application agility, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate time-to-market
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure
  • Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing)

Expectations

  • Contribute to developing a world-class continuous deployment experience, enabling the rapid and reliable shipment of MongoDB products
  • This includes, but is not limited to, contributing to open-source projects, or engineering software-based approaches like Kubernetes operators to streamline processes
  • Own the onboarding flow other engineering teams follow when launching a new product or service
  • Collaborate with other teams within Platform Engineering to ensure a consistent service-onboarding experience
  • Provide internal support for our deployment systems, including answering questions and addressing issues
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving the deployment infrastructure

Details

  • This includes, but is not limited to, contributing to open-source projects, or engineering software-based approaches like Kubernetes operators to streamline processes
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FocusSite Reliability EngineeringRole area
Seniority signalLeadCandidate level
StackAWS, Azure, CI/CDPrimary skills
Location3 accepted countriesEligibility

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