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Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Storage Layer Services (SLS)
Mongodb INC · 🇺🇸 Boston; Miami; New York City; Pittsburgh; Raleigh; United States
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 93 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mongodb INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Senior Technical Services Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $164k–$164k, median $164k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 93 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. You will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll join a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. This role can be based out of our Boston, New York City, Raleigh, Miami, Pittsburgh or remotely in the United States while physically based in an Eastern or Central time zone location. The ideal candidate should • Have 6+ years of experience working on software development and operating distributed systems • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language • Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale, and are comfortable with durability, consistency, and recovery trade-offs. • Possess a customer-focused mindset • Value efficiency in processes and operations • Prefer automation over manual processes. We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil • Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to enhance application agility, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate time-to-market • Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure • Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing) Responsibilities • Work on our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs • Build for reliability, making services and infrastructure available, resilient, fault-tolerant, and self-healing • Identify and configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health, availability, and performance • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving the storage infrastructure • Become an expert in infrastructure performance, helping us optimize from the application level all the way to the kernel Strong candidates may also have experience with: • Leading major architectural shifts, such as moving from legacy storage stacks to new multi-tenant storage architectures, including planning and executing large-scale data and workload migrations with tight availability and durability requirements • Managing and scaling infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Designing secure, multi-tenant runtime environments at scale 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. Our com