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Site Reliability Engineer, Storage Layer Services (SLS)

MongoDB· Storage Layer Services (SLS)
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Hybrid (Remote/US-East or US-Central aligned)$126k - $248kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role within MongoDB's Storage Layer Services team, focusing on re-architecting cloud storage and building multi-tenant distributed storage services to support MongoDB Atlas with reliability, durability, and scale. Founding member of a small senior SRE team contributing to a multi-year cloud storage roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Work on multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
  • Build for reliability, making services and infrastructure available, resilient, fault-tolerant, and self-healing
  • Identify and configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health, availability, and performance
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving the storage infrastructure
  • Become an expert in infrastructure performance, helping us optimize from the application level all the way to the kernel

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience working on software development and operating distributed systems
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language
  • Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale, and are comfortable with durability, consistency, and recovery trade-offs
  • Possess a customer-focused mindset
  • Value efficiency in processes and operations
  • Prefer automation over manual processes. 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)

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsPythonContainerization and KubernetesCloud platformsLinux internals and networking
Nice to have:Go

Benefits

  • 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
  • Health benefits offerings
  • Other benefits for eligible employees may include additional supportups
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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