Programming skills are nice to have, but not required for this role. This is a good role for someone who might possess foundational programming skills and would like to hone those skills by contributing to the core service, tooling leveraged by our team to diagnose and respond to operational alerts, monitoring, metrics, and test cases.
Candidates should have a strong desire to work within a CICD environment and have a passion for embracing new cloud technologies. You need to be collaborative, able to handle responsibility, and love learning new techniques and tools. There is a requirement to be expert in the database technology and other cloud technologies such as Kubernetes.
We are a "You build it, You run it" culture. As a MongoDB expert, you will join our follow-the-sun rotation where you will be the primary responder for automated system alerts. You will follow runbooks to resolve such issues and use your troubleshooting and analytical skills to diagnose or troubleshoot platform or Data Service issues.
Required skills:
Experience configuring and operating highly-available MongoDB production clusters
Experience in debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving database hosting issues (e.g, replication, clustering) in production
Experience in application and performance design using databases and troubleshooting of application-side database issues
Experience in working with clients troubleshoot performance or availability issues in applications using MongoDB
Experience with Kubernetes
Preferred Skills:
8+ years in programming with Python or similar programming language
8+ years in required skills above
Operating a database service in a large scale environment