Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

We are seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) who sits at the crossroads of MongoDB mastery and infrastructure automation. Whether you're a MongoDB DBA who codes or a DevOps/SRE engineer with deep MongoDB experience, this role is for someone who’s passionate about building scalable, resilient, and high-performance data systems.

In this role, you’ll help us evolve our database infrastructure using modern DevOps principles—automation-first, performance-driven, and cloud-ready. You’ll collaborate with developers, SREs, and DevOps engineers to integrate MongoDB into our CI/CD pipelines and ensure it runs smoothly at scale.

You Will

• Design, maintain, and scale high-performance MongoDB clusters (6.x–8.x) in production environments.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation using Python, Ansible, or similar tooling.
• Partner with SREs and DevOps to integrate MongoDB into CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code.
• Optimize performance through query analysis, index design, and resource tuning.
• Plan and execute upgrades, migrations, sharding strategies, and capacity management.
• Drive backup and disaster recovery planning aligned with security best practices.

You Have

• Deep experience configuring, tuning, and operating MongoDB in production (including versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0)
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB indexing, query plans, replication, sharding, and aggregation framework
• Proficiency in database automation and scripting, ideally using Python, Ansible, or similar tools
• Solid understanding of disaster recovery, scaling strategies, and data integrity practices
• Experience troubleshooting performance issues and implementing query/index optimization
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code concepts
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills—you work well with cross-functional teams and can explain complex topics clearly
• A problem-solver mindset with the ability to adapt and lead through ambiguity or unexpected technical challenges

Nice to have

• Experience with Elastic
• Experience with networking and virtualization/containers
• Experience with troubleshooting hardware issues
• Experience with MongoDB security best practices

Education/Experience

• A Highschool Diploma or equivalent is required.
• A Bachelor’s degree in software development, database programming, or computer engineering is preferred.
• 5+ years in an SRE position managing database workloads (preferably MongoDB workloads) or 5+ years in a developer position with advanced MongoDB knowledge.

General Remote Environment

• Moderate levels of stress may occur at times.
• It may require long periods of sitting and viewing a computer monitor
• No physical demands are required.
• On- Call Rotation is required with the possibility during holidays as required by the business for 24/7 support.
• Occasional Travel, less than 10%

Sponsorship

• This role is not sponsorship eligible.
• Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in the US for any employer.