Technical Services Engineer, Infrastructure - Weekend

MongoDB•Palo Alto, CA

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

MongoDB Technical Services Engineers use their outstanding problem solving and customer service skills, along with their deep technical experience, to advise customers and to solve their complex MongoDB problems. Technical Service Engineers are specialists in the entire MongoDB ecosystem - database server, drivers, our management suite, as well as services such as Atlas, Cloud Manager, Compass to name a few. Our engineers combine their MongoDB expertise with passion, initiative, teamwork, and a great sense of humor to achieve exceptional results for our customers. We’re looking for individuals who want to dig into the details of how “big data” and “web-scale” systems are successfully assembled and operated every day by organizations of every size and flavor. In this cross‑functional role as a Technical Services Engineer, you will work with the largest and most demanding customers to drive successful implementations of MongoDB Server, MongoDB Search, and managed backups on Kubernetes platforms. Enhance your technical troubleshooting expertise and experience as a TSE (Technical Services Engineer) by working on customer use cases, evaluating solutions, customer business pain points, application architectures, and Cloud infrastructure configurations. Collaborate with enterprise customers to design, implement, and troubleshoot backup strategies for massive production environments—scaling to petabytes of data—while ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and compliance with retention requirements. Opportunity to shape the roadmap of products, tooling, and the core database by providing product feedback.

Requirements

Patience, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with internal and external stakeholders.
The ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and find solutions to challenges in real-time.
Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting aptitude, with significant experience troubleshooting end-to-end technical issues in production environments.
Full understanding of Linux systems and networking concepts, including firewalls, load balancers, performance tuning, storage management.
1+ years of experience in a Support role working directly with customers.
2+ years of experience with administering RDBMSs such as Oracle, Postgres, mySQL etc. MongoDB experience is preferred.
3+ years or more of combined experience in the following technical domains:
Experience operating in and managing Kubernetes clusters.
Experience with DevOps practices and Infrastructure-as-code.
Experience with Disaster Recovery situations (Backup management, Snapshot Restores, Return-to-service operations).
5+ years of mixed experience with Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-prem infrastructure administration in a production environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI topics, development, and supporting technologies such as Vector Search.
Experience managing large-scale databases (RDBMS or NoSQL or both) and monitoring them via products like Prometheus or Grafana.
Experience with specific MongoDB products like Ops Manager, Cloud Manager, Atlas, Kubernetes Operator/Controller.
Experience coding in one or more of Python, Java, Go, Ruby, C, C++.
Experience with personal test labs and reproducing issues locally to drive resolution of issues.
Experience working on weekends or outside of typical business hours.

Responsibilities

Work with the largest and most demanding customers to drive successful implementations of MongoDB Server, MongoDB Search, and managed backups on Kubernetes platforms.
Enhance technical troubleshooting expertise and experience by working on customer use cases, evaluating solutions, customer business pain points, application architectures, and Cloud infrastructure configurations.
Collaborate with enterprise customers to design, implement, and troubleshoot backup strategies for massive production environments—scaling to petabytes of data—while ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and compliance with retention requirements.
Provide product feedback to shape the roadmap of products, tooling, and the core database.