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Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)

MongoDB· Infrastructure Engineering
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Hybrid (Gurugram)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Invocation: Build and maintain a self-service internal development platform to enable MongoDB engineering teams to deploy and operate production services reliably, with a focus on automation, observability, and collaboration across time zones.

Responsibilities

  • Define, plan, and execute projects that help to run, grow, and transform MongoDB's self-service internal developer platform
  • Take on direct reports and organize work for a team of platform engineers in coordination with other engineering leads
  • Lead by example and mentor other engineers
  • Work with engineering teams across MongoDB to investigate gaps and limitations in existing development workflows and understand new infrastructure and platform requirements
  • Regularly write and review automation, configuration management, and application code
  • Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services
  • Own and operate much of the internal development platform that runs MongoDB
  • Work on a distributed team that frequently interacts with remote engineers across multiple time zones (PST, EST, GMT, IST)

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of 3+ engineers
  • 5+ years of experience owning the design and implementation of large software/infrastructure projects
  • Built and operated large-scale distributed systems in cloud providers (AWS strongly preferred)
  • Strong backend programming background; fluency in Go strongly preferred; deep experience with another compiled or strongly-typed backend language acceptable
  • Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and collaborative
  • Strong experience operating production Kubernetes clusters
  • Experience defining and operating against SLI/SLOs for owned services
  • Strong observability tooling experience: metrics, logging, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills
  • Familiar with standard authentication protocols (OAuth, OIDC)
  • Familiar with web services and/or Kubernetes controller development
  • Strong experience using CI/CD workflows to deploy production services
  • Experience working with AI coding agents and building high-quality context to yield high-quality outputs

Skills

Required:GoKubernetesObservabilityCI/CDCloud (AWS)Linux
Nice to have:Authentication protocols
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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