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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

CompanyMongoDB
LocationToronto, ON, Canada
Salary$144000 – $200000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • You have experience running a mission critical service at scale
  • An understanding of information security issues
  • Prior experience running critical production systems in a Linux environment
  • Firm grasp of at least one modern programming language, beyond basic scripting
  • Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Experience writing automation tools & eagerness to “automate all the things”

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the infrastructure for a global cloud service that comprises hundreds of thousands of MongoDB clusters, processes a billion metrics per day, and replicates tens of billions of database writes to our backup service
  • Design, implement, and troubleshoot the automation and monitoring of services that seamlessly spans the globe – including several cloud providers
  • Become an expert in infrastructure performance, helping us optimize from the application level all the way through the firmware
  • Build for resilience. Our goal is that nobody’s pager goes off, ever. Are we there yet? No. Are we really close? Very. While we work on that – participate in a weekly on-call rotation
  • Improve our infrastructure capabilities, optimizing for cost, simplicity, and maintainability

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building large applications from scratch, complete with CI/CD infrastructure
  • Experience in networking, security, hardware or OS performance tuning
  • Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure)
  • Experience managing kubernetes clusters or some other container orchestration infrastructure
  • Experience with observability of large scale distributed systems