Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Deployments

Platform Engineering is the department within SRE that is responsible for a range of critical infrastructure and operational functions that support the broader engineering organization. Among these are our multi-cloud-provider Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, load balancing (including our public-facing edge and internal service mesh), and observability and alerting systems.

The Deployments team designs and maintains our continuous delivery infrastructure, ensuring reliable code deployment from development through production for all engineering teams. This infrastructure is primarily composed of Argo Workflows and ArgoCD. The team also provides tooling that enables clear system ownership and facilitates self-service onboarding for development teams.

We are looking to speak to candidates who can work East Coast hours.

The ideal candidate should

Have 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems

Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language

Proven experience building and operating large-scale continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

Possess a customer-focused mindset

Value efficiency in processes and operations

Prefer automation over manual process (“allergic to ops work”). 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)

Expectations

Contribute to developing a world-class continuous deployment experience, enabling the rapid and reliable shipment of MongoDB products

This includes, but is not limited to, contributing to open-source projects, or engineering software-based approaches like Kubernetes operators to streamline processes

Own the onboarding flow other engineering teams follow when launching a new product or service

Collaborate with other teams within Platform Engineering to ensure a consistent service-onboarding experience

Provide internal support for our deployment systems, including answering questions and addressing issues

Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving the deployment infrastructure