Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Observability

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

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Requirements

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.
• 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

• 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