Senior Software Engineer (Deployments)
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- 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 our continuous delivery infrastructure, ensuring reliable code deployment from development through production for all engineering teams
- This infrastructure is primarily composed of Argo Workflows and ArgoCD
- The team also provides tooling that enables clear system ownership and facilitates self-service onboarding for development teams
- We are looking to speak to candidates who can work East Coast hours
- Contribute to developing a world-class continuous deployment experience, enabling the rapid and reliable shipment of MongoDB products
- This includes, but is not limited to, contributing to open-source projects, or engineering software-based approaches like Kubernetes operators to streamline processes
- Own the onboarding flow other engineering teams follow when launching a new product or service
- Collaborate with other teams within Platform Engineering to ensure a consistent service-onboarding experience
- Provide internal support for our deployment systems, including answering questions and addressing issues
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving the deployment infrastructure
- Have 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems
- Possess a customer-focused mindset
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language
- Proven experience building and operating large-scale continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Value efficiency in processes and operations
- Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to enhance application agility, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate time-to-market
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure
- Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing)
- Prefer automation over manual process (“allergic to ops work”). We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil