2 days ago
Base Salary
$129k - $232k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate production MongoDB clusters in Kubernetes across multiple regions and clouds.
- Monitor cluster health, performance, replication, and storage, and resolve availability, latency, and data consistency issues.
- Participate in MongoDB infrastructure on-call rotations and incident response.
- Automate database user management, cluster scaling, version upgrades, backup restores, and lifecycle operations.
- Maintain tooling for MongoDB observability, lifecycle management, and access control.
- Implement point-in-time recovery, daily snapshots, cross-region backups, restore validation, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Partner with Security and Compliance teams to meet recovery objectives and audit requirements.
- Support engineering teams with schema design, indexing, query optimization, data modeling, and shard key design.
- Document operational runbooks, configuration standards, and performance baselines.
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of experience managing MongoDB in production environments at scale.
- Strong working knowledge of replica sets, sharding, WiredTiger, oplogs, and journaling.
- Experience operating MongoDB in cloud or containerized environments, with Kubernetes preferred.
- Experience scripting or automating with Bash, Python, or Go.
- Proficiency with MongoDB CLI tools, Atlas APIs, and tools such as mongodump, mongorestore, mongosh, and Ops Manager.
- Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting strategies.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD is a plus.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or DynamoDB is a bonus.
- Familiarity with security best practices and SOX or SOC 2 compliance frameworks is a bonus.
- Contributions to open-source MongoDB tooling or community forums are a bonus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with a curated in-office employee experience.
- Base compensation for U.S. candidates of $128,842–$232,200 annually, with potential equity and other compensation described separately.
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- Fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Braze
Braze builds a customer engagement platform used by marketing teams to orchestrate cross-channel messaging across mobile, email, web, and more. The company sells its software via SaaS subscriptions with analytics, segmentation, and journey orchestration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze is a public company (NASDAQ: BRZE) with global offices.