Senior Site Reliability Engineer

$180,000 - $294,000/Yr

MongoDB - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The position involves designing and building the infrastructure for a global cloud service that manages a vast number of MongoDB clusters and processes extensive metrics daily. The role requires expertise in observability technology and high throughput edge networking, with a focus on optimizing infrastructure for cost, simplicity, and maintainability. The candidate will work in a hybrid model, requiring in-office presence three days a week while allowing remote work for two days.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the infrastructure for a global cloud service comprising hundreds of thousands of MongoDB clusters.
• Process a billion metrics per day and replicate tens of billions of database writes to the backup service.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot monitoring services that span multiple cloud providers globally.
• Become an expert in observability technology to instrument and monitor all aspects of services.
• Handle high throughput edge networking, managing billions of requests per day.
• Improve infrastructure capabilities, optimizing for cost, simplicity, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or related field and five years of progressive experience in Site Reliability / Production Engineering or related role.
• Alternatively, a Master's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or related field and three years of experience in Site Reliability / Production Engineering or related role.
• Experience running a mission-critical service at scale.
• Strong understanding of information security issues and secure system design.
• Experience running critical production systems in a Linux environment.
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, TCP/UDP, DNS).
• Experience in modern observability tooling (Prometheus, Splunk, OTEL, ELK stack, etc.).
• Experience in modern edge networking, including load balancing, proxy/reverse-proxy, DNS, and edge security.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $180,000 to $294,000 per year.
• Hybrid work model allowing 2 days of remote work per week.
• Legal right to work in the U.S.