This role can be based out of our London office or remotely in the UK.
Our ideal candidate
Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and understands the benefits of collaboration
Provides guidance and coaching to entry-mid level engineers
Takes a software-driven approach to solving problems and routinely uses git to track progress
Familiar with software engineering principles, dependency injection, composition, and test driven development
Experience designing/implementing medium/large scale software projects (preferably with Go)
Familiar with standard authentication protocols (e.g OAuth)
Familiar with the development of web services and/or Kubernetes controllers
Experienced performing deep technical analysis and fixing applications, systems, and networks
Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills
Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure
Experience with configuration management tools and managing infrastructure through code
Familiar with how to use CI/CD workflows and tooling to deploy production services
Experience running containers in a production environment, preferably Kubernetes based
Experience with observability concepts and tooling, metrics, logging, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Has practical knowledge of delivering production level services with SLI/SLOs and understands how to measure, track and adjust them
Position Expectations
Work with engineering teams across MongoDB to investigate gaps and limitations in existing development workflows and understand new infrastructure and platform requirements
Design self-service platform services and developer tooling that focuses on reliability, usability, and provides the appropriate level of abstraction from cloud infrastructure
Regularly write and review automation, configuration management, and application code
Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services
Own and operate much of the internal development platform that runs MongoDB
Work on a distributed team that frequently interacts with remote engineers across multiple time zones (primarily PST/EST/GMT)
Success Measures
In three months you’ll have familiarized yourself with much of our environment and will be able to whiteboard important pieces of our platform on the fly. You will also be making regular contributions to our tooling/services and jumping in to help resolve incidents and respond to user requests
In six months you’ll have successfully investigated, scoped, executed, and documented a medium to large sized platform project
In a year you’ll have used your deep knowledge of our software and infrastructure to help drive platform adoption across the company. You will also be a subject matter expert in at least one component of our platform, and will have made a number of sizable contributions to our code base that significantly improve the quality, reliability and maintainability of our systems