Senior MongoDB Database Platform Engineer

MongoDB Platform Engineering

• Design, build, deploy, administer, and support enterprise MongoDB environments across production and non-production landscapes, including on-premises deployments and MongoDB Atlas PaaS.
• Lead MongoDB installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
• Design and operate MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters, including appropriate topology, storage, networking, and capacity configurations.
• Define and maintain MongoDB engineering standards, reference architectures, build procedures, operational controls, and best practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews and advise application teams on data modeling, indexing, scalability, resilience, connectivity, and operational readiness.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• Design and support highly available MongoDB solutions using replica sets, elections, read preferences, write concerns, and multi-site or multi-region architectures.
• Implement and maintain disaster-recovery strategies for both on-premises MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas deployments.
• Plan and execute failover, recovery, regional resiliency, and disaster-recovery tests.
• Work with stakeholders to define, validate, and maintain recovery time and recovery point objectives.

Backup and Recovery

• Design, implement, and operate enterprise MongoDB backup and recovery solutions for on-premises and MongoDB Atlas environments.
• Administer snapshot, continuous backup, point-in-time recovery, retention, restore, and recovery-validation processes using MongoDB-native and enterprise tooling.
• Conduct regular restore testing and support disaster-recovery exercises to verify recoverability.

Performance and Reliability

• Monitor database availability, capacity, health, replication, storage, and performance across on-premises and MongoDB Atlas environments.
• Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, aggregation pipelines, schema and data models, connection behavior, and database configurations.
• Troubleshoot complex production incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
• Drive database reliability, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence initiatives.

Security and Compliance

• Implement MongoDB security controls, access-management standards, and least-privilege practices.
• Manage roles and privileges, authentication, authorization, encryption in transit and at rest, auditing, key management, and credential-management integrations.
• Configure and support Atlas security capabilities, including private connectivity, network access controls, identity integration, and organizational access governance.
• Support compliance reviews, vulnerability remediation, security assessments, and evidence requests.

Automation and DevOps

• Develop automation for MongoDB provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, validation, monitoring, and routine operations.
• Use Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, source control, APIs, and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and repeatability.
• Partner with engineering teams to expand safe self-service capabilities and reduce manual operational effort.

Platform Operations and Technical Leadership

• Provide support for mission-critical production and non-production MongoDB environments across on-premises and MongoDB Atlas PaaS.
• Participate in on-call rotations, major incident response, change management, and problem management.
• Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, standards, architectural documentation, and operational procedures.
• Mentor engineers, review technical solutions, and provide technical leadership for MongoDB platform initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of database administration, database engineering, or data-platform engineering experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on MongoDB administration and engineering experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
• Strong Linux administration experience; RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution is preferred.
• Deep understanding of MongoDB architecture, storage engine behavior, replication, sharding, configuration, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, and capacity planning.
• Hands-on experience administering or engineering MongoDB Atlas, including cluster deployment, scaling, backup, monitoring, networking, access management, and migration activities.
• Strong skills in MongoDB query analysis, indexing, aggregation pipelines, schema and data modeling, and workload optimization.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database, operating system, storage, network, and connectivity issues in production environments.
• Experience planning and executing database upgrades, migrations, patching, platform changes, and production releases.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and work effectively across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Ops Manager for on-premises database lifecycle management, monitoring, backup, and automation.
• Experience designing or operating hybrid MongoDB platforms spanning on-premises environments and MongoDB Atlas across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with MongoDB migration and synchronization tooling such as mongodump/mongorestore, MongoDB Database Tools, Atlas Live Migration, or MongoDB Relational Migrator.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or native MongoDB and Atlas monitoring capabilities.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and delivery tools such as Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Nice to have: hands-on experience using Ansible to automate MongoDB installation, configuration, patching, validation, and repeatable operational tasks.
• Exposure to other database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or Neo4j.
• Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring team members, and influencing enterprise platform standards.