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Site Reliability Engineer, Storage Layer Services

MongoDB· Storage Layer Services (SLS)
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Hybrid (Canada (Eastern or Central time zones))CA$144k - CA$200kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

SLS role focused on re-architecting MongoDB’s cloud storage layer, building multi-tenant distributed storage services for Atlas, and ensuring reliability, durability, and operational safety. Founding member of a small, senior SRE team; multi-year cloud storage roadmap with potential base in Toronto, Montreal, or remote Canada (Eastern/Central time zones).

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
  • Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing)

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsProgrammingCloud platformsKubernetes

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
  • RRSP with employer match
  • Mental health counseling
  • Backup child and elder care
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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