[Remote] Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Fleet Management

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MongoDB is a leading database company that empowers customers to innovate at market speed. The Manager of Site Reliability Engineering for Fleet Management will oversee a team dedicated to managing Kubernetes infrastructure and ensuring operational reliability, while also contributing to strategic technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers
• Help develop a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our runtime environment, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs
• Contribute through light hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges
• Act as the primary liaison for the Fleet Management team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations

Skills

• 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams
• Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users
• Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows
• Prefer automation over manual processes ('allergic to ops work'), fostering a culture of building software solutions to eliminate toil
• Have deep technical familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystems, containerization technologies, and modern IaC tooling (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane, or Operators) so you can effectively guide the team's technical decisions
• Excel at translating complex business and engineering requirements into actionable, phased technical roadmaps
• Have a high level of empathy, responsibility, ownership, and accountability
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Leading major architectural shifts, such as migrating teams from traditional IaC to Operator-driven lifecycle management
• Managing and scaling infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Designing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments at scale

Benefits

• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings

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