Staff Engineer, Deployment Platform

The Application Modernization Platform (AMP) team is tackling one of the industry's most critical challenges: leveraging Generative AI to transform rigid, legacy applications into modern, microservices-based architectures powered by MongoDB. We are building a comprehensive, SaaS-like platform, encompassing both the "brain" (multi-agent reasoning and orchestration) and the "hands" (the deployment platform and modernization toolset). This solution requires a robust platform foundation and infrastructure designed for a "build once, run anywhere" model, ensuring seamless operation regardless of a client's security or network constraints. A key challenge is balancing the need to tune our tools for each customer's unique tech stack and restrictive environments with making them easily extensible and scalable for common application modernization challenges. We seek an engineering leader for this high-visibility initiative. This role requires defining the high-level strategy and technical direction across all AMP engineering pillars, leading the execution of solving uniquely complex application modernization puzzles, and delivering an enterprise-grade product. The leader will minimize deployment friction, meet customer compliance requirements, and help shape the future of how global enterprises leverage GenAI. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who excels at leveraging GenAI capabilities, architecting complex distributed systems, and designing the orchestration agents necessary to reliably and fluidly run the entire software development lifecycle. This role will be based in North America's West Coast (PST), and offers a hybrid working model. THE IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR THIS ROLE WILL HAVE * 10+ years of software development and operations experience, with a focus on building platforms and distributable software infrastructure * Deep experience in building data warehouses and core components for data processing systems * Have experience in using GenAI in building complex large-scale systems, and know what GenAI is best suited to do * Understanding of security-first design, specifically regarding the execution of untrusted code, fine-grain access control, and rigorous input validation * 2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of engineers to achieve high-impact results * Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and a strong desire to collaborate cross-functions * Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity * Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning, in particular building AI skillset KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement * Provide thought leadership, and execute AMP roadmaps to influence and shape the future of how global enterprises leverage GenAI * Lead the design and implementation of a sophisticated orchestration layer that manages authentication, telemetry, and the workflow of application modernization stages * Lead the team design and leverage GenAI to build reliable and scalable building blocks that are extendable and easy to assemble to an autonomous workflow * Collaborate with MongoDB product teams to ensure the modernized applications integrate seamlessly with customers’ database ecosystem * Act as a hands-on leader, guiding the team through technical challenges related to where and how to leverage GenAI to build the critical building blocks of application modernization toolset SUCCESS MEASURES Within the first three months, you will have: * Fully ramped up on our architecture, business domain, and the specific constraints of deploying software to large enterprise client environments * Established yourself as the technical leader within the team, actively driving engineering strategy and key technical decisions * Begun collaborating with team leaders (TLs, managers) of AMP org and product counterparts on designing/improving the orchestration framework and the workflow components it manages * Developed a comprehensive grasp of all AMP pillars and their roadmap Within six months, you will have: * Influenced AMP product and engineering leads on key technical decisions, and set clear direction for the team * Successfully led the team to making substantial progress on the “big rock” deliverables and critical milestones of AMP product, enabling the team to smoothly land the planned roadmap * Owned and delivered some key pieces of AMP orchestration framework and the workflow components it manages * Served as a role model and strategic leader for the AMP org * Contributed to establish engineering excellence standards for the team, and began mentoring and providing technical guidance to team members Within 12 months, you will have: * Become recognized as the strategic engineering leader both within and outside of the AMP organization * Helped senior leadership (e.g., Directors/VP) on defining the technical strategy and roadmap for the future * Enabled the team to deliver a stable, production-ready platform that supports autonomous application modernization workflow for our Field Engineering teams * Drove the adoption of engineering excellence, making it a core tenet of the team's culture and operations * Contributed to the development of tech leads within the team, fostering growth opportunities. Played a key role in shaping the AMP organization into a self-driving high-performing engineering team ABOUT MONGODB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. 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Other benefits for eligible employees may include: 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, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates. MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $211,000—$363,000 USD

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. As Reddit continues to scale globally, reliability and performance are more critical than ever. The Site Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient. We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can influence engineering culture across the organization. WHAT YOU’LL DO: * Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience * Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services. Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. * Architect for Scale * Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning. * Reduce Operational Risk * Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health. * Drive Automation * Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails * Incident Management * Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented. Influence Engineering Standards * Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company. Mentor and Multiply Impact * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems. * Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. * Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments. * Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures. * Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices. * Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar. * Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. * Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization. * Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services. Nice to Have * Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes. * Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms. * Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies. * Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure. * Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities. * Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives. Why Join Reddit? You’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day. This is an opportunity to solve deeply complex engineering problems at massive scale while helping define the future of reliability engineering for a modern consumer platform. Benefits * Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match * Private Medical and Dental Scheme * Income Replacement Programs * Bike to Work scheme * Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off * Generous Paid Parental Leave *   * Generous Paid Parental Leave *   * Generous Paid Parental Leave *   In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. 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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.