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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Fleet Management

MongoDB · Austin; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Miami; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; United States

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
82 days
MongoDB's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of MongoDB's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at MongoDB
high
411 stale, 7 reposted of 411 open
Hiring momentum
575 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from MongoDB's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for MongoDB.

About this role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Fleet Management team, you will develop and maintain a scalable and secure Kubernetes runtime environment that supports product development at MongoDB. Your responsibilities will include providing internal support for the Kubernetes ecosystem, participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation, and focusing on blameless post-mortems to improve system reliability. You will work closely with engineering teams to address domain-specific challenges and drive operational ownership.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of MongoDB as an employer.

What you need

  • 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
  • Proficient in Go, Python, or a similar language with a strong commitment to code quality and testing practices
  • Deep experience using and extending containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes
  • Solid understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts
  • Strong operational ownership with a track record of debugging complex production issues
  • Customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as primary users

Nice to have

  • Experience designing and implementing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Helm, Kustomize, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and CRDs/Operators
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Proficiency in provisioning infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Crossplane, and AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
  • Advanced Linux systems internals and networking concepts relevant to containers

What you get

  • 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

Worth weighing

  • Base salary range is $127,000 — $249,000 USD, but compensation is unique to each candidate based on various factors
  • Role involves a 24/7 on-call rotation which may impact work-life balance
  • Focus on automation suggests a preference for candidates who are not interested in traditional ops work

Summarised from MongoDB's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by MongoDB on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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