Lead, Site Reliability Engineering, Deployments San Francisco

Company: MongoDB
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere-on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it's no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.Platform Engineering is the department within SRE that is responsible for a range of critical infrastructure and operational functions that support the broader engineering organization. Among these are our multi-cloud-provider Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, load balancing (including our public-facing edge and internal service mesh), and observability and alerting systems.The Deployments team designs and maintains continuous delivery infrastructure to ensure reliable code deployment from dev up through prod for all of engineering (this infrastructure is composed primarily of Argo Workflows and ArgoCD). They provide the tooling that enables clear ownership of systems and facilitates self-service onboarding by development teams.We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in San Francisco for our hybrid working model.The ideal candidate should

• Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams
• Possess a customer-focused mindset
• Value efficiency in processes and operations
• Prefer automation over manual process ("allergic to ops work")
• Lead a team of engineers, including creating a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively setting direction and removing blockers for the team
• Help develop a world-class continuous deployment experience that allows us to quickly ship MongoDB products in a reliable manner
• Own the onboarding flow other engineering teams follow when launching a new product or service
• Collaborate with various other teams within the Platform Engineering organization to ensure a consistent service-onboarding experience
• Provide internal support for our deployment systems, answering questions and addressing technical issues as they arise
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to handle issues involving the deployment infrastructureTo 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, we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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