• Team and Role Overview

The SRE Observability team is part of the larger Platform Engineering organization, and is dedicated to building and maintaining the observability stack (metrics, logging, tracing) used by all engineering teams to ensure the smooth functioning of their service. We also own related services, including our telemetry pipeline, and our monitoring and alerting infrastructure. Our stack includes VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, QuickWit, Jaeger, Fluentbit, and Vector. In addition to owning our observability infrastructure, as an Engineer on the team, you’ll also work closely with other SWE and SRE teams to promote and implement best practices in instrumenting and monitoring their services. This is a highly collaborative role, and you will get to own some of the most relied upon internal infrastructure at Mongo.

• We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

• Define standards and vision for the mission-critical observability platform leveraged by all parts of the engineering organization
• Design, architect, build and deliver core pieces of our observability services in collaboration with other vested parties
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot the monitoring of services that seamlessly spans the globe - including several cloud providers
• Build for reliability, making services and infrastructure available, resilient, fault tolerant and self-healing
• Identify and configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health, availability and performance.
• Participate in a week-long on-call rotation and blameless post-mortem process

Improve our observability capabilities, optimizing for cost, ease of use, and maintainability

• Experience running mission critical services at scale
• Experience with observability of large scale distributed systems
• An understanding of information security issues
• Firm grasp of at least one modern programming language, beyond basic scripting
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Nice to haves
• Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure)
• Experience working in a kubernetes-based environment kubernetes clusters
• What's in it for you
• Generous compensation package
• Opportunities to learn on the job (time to up skill in new technologies)
• High level of independence in your day to day work
• About Company
• With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on Company for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
• Our compass at Company is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us Company.
• Company 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.
• Company is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 1263097733

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