Software Development · 8k people
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Storage Layer Service
Posted 9 Oct
What’s this role about? The Team Lead will build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, focusing on fostering culture, managing career growth, and removing blockers. They will define the technical vision and roadmap for multi-tenant distributed storage systems while contributing hands-on through design reviews and operational guidance.
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About MongoDB Headquartered in New York, MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today's wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.
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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 our
- multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic
- infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
- Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural
- design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through
- complex operational challenges
- Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team,
- collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform
- alignment and manage stakeholder expectations
Qualification
- 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, and have a track record of
- optimizing team workflows
- Prefer automation over manual processes, fostering a culture of building
- software solutions to eliminate toil
- Have deep technical familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystems, containerization
- technologies, and modern IaC tooling (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane, or
- Operators) so you can effectively guide the team's technical decisions
- 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
- Have a high level of empathy, responsibility, ownership, and accountability
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
- Leading major architectural shifts, such as moving from legacy storage stacks
- to new multi-tenant storage architectures, including planning and executing
- large-scale data and workload migrations with tight availability and
- Managing and scaling infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS,
- Designing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments at scale
- MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate
- at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era,
- enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
- MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed
- data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads,
- embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is
- the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across
- AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
- With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune
- 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important
- applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
- Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment,
- To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re
- committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From
- employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave
- policy
- MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and
- applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any
- MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the
- time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such
- as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part
- of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for
- eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock
- purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral
- parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health
- counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and
- health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and
- the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
- MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is
- $157,000—$270,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Employee stock purchase program
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- 401(k) plan
- Mental health counseling
- Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Health benefits offerings
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