Platform Engineer

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

The Developer Productivity Team empowers engineers at MongoDB through our automated build, test, and release systems for all MongoDB products. Our primary areas of responsibility are building and scaling the infrastructure for our homegrown CI system Evergreen, supporting the tools and systems, and researching and developing support for the many architectures and operating systems in our SDLC.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to work on our DevOps infrastructure team who will focus on building and automating large scale pipelines to provision our CI images, deploying configuration changes to CI task hosts, building toolchains, and troubleshooting system and configuration related issues.

This role can be based in one of our offices or remotely in North America.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Experience or desire to work with a large, heterogeneous server environment (container/virtual/physical, Linux/Windows/macOS, x86/ARM/Power/zSeries)
• Experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Experience with scripting languages (BASH, Powershell, etc)
• Experience or desire to use cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, Google Compute)
• Familiarity with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools like Chef, Packer, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or CloudFormation (we use Packer, Ansible and Terraform)
• Strong problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Understanding the security fundamentals related to servers and infrastructure configuration.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, Travis, or CircleCI (We use Evergreen-CI)
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Familiarity with JIRA or other agile planning tools
• Familiarity with infrastructure metrics and monitoring

Position Expectations:

• Work with colleagues to build, manage, and scale thousands of servers running automated build, test and release jobs across all supported MongoDB platforms including Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, IBM (zSeries and Power) and macOS. 
• Contribute to building and maintaining core platform-as-a-service technologies for the purposes of developer productivity tools.
• Provide support for our newest platforms by developing stable machine and toolchain images. 
• Troubleshoot and solve system and platform related product issues.

The Platform Engineer will be successful in this role when they can execute the following strategic tasks and responsibilities:

• Accelerate the productivity and confidence in our software development lifecycle through Platform Engineering
• Give and receive consistent, high quality code review feedback
• Contribute regularly to process and system improvements
• Continually automate and optimize team operational processes
• Participate in and contribute to high standards of documentation and testing for processes, code, and systems
• Strive relentlessly to enable colleagues to be more successful
• Assist our developers with understanding and debugging tasks that run on our platform images.

To 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!

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