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Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Storage Layer Services (SLS)

MongoDB· Engineering / Storage Layer Services (SLS)
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Hybrid (Dublin, Ireland)full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineering Manager for MongoDB's Storage Layer Services (SLS) leading a small senior team to define SLOs, capacity, reliability, and operational safety of the cloud storage layer underpinning Atlas; based in Dublin for hybrid work.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers
  • Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
  • Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and guiding the team through complex operational challenges
  • Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations

Qualifications

  • Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams
  • Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users
  • Value efficiency in processes and operations, with a track record of optimizing team workflows
  • Prefer automation over manual processes, fostering a culture of building software solutions to eliminate toil
  • Deep technical familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystems, containerization technologies, and modern IaC tooling (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane, or Operators)
  • Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale and are comfortable with durability, consistency and recovery trade-offs
  • Excel at translating complex business and engineering requirements into actionable, phased technical roadmaps
  • High level of empathy, responsibility, ownership, and accountability
  • Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsTeam leadershipKubernetesContainerizationInfrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • Employee benefits inferred from company culture and policies: supportive and enriching culture, fertility assistance, parental leave policy, and wellbeing focus
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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