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Technical Services Engineer

mongodb
Posted
Apr 10, 2026
Location
Sydney
Type
Remote
Source
Greenhouse
Verification
⚠ Unverified — apply with caution

Overview

Building on the rapid success and adoption of MongoDB, we are delivering applications and services that make it much easier to manage and scale database deployments. These next-generation systems are a growing list but currently include products such as Atlas ( guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It's what makes us MongoDB. 

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what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

REQ ID: 1273397152

Requirements

4+ years of proven experience, we consider all candidates with an eye for those who are self-taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.

  • Strong diagnostics and troubleshooting experience, with the ability to analyse issues holistically, from the application tier, to database to storage
  • Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability, and scalability
  • Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting
  • Ability to read code, and basic coding/scripting ability in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, etc
  • Good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, etc.)
  • Storage engineering experience, including NAS, RAID, SAN, SSD, multi-pathing, and caching
  • Experience supporting complex mission-critical product applications and database systems (RDBMS or non-relational)

You should possess a genuine desire to help people, the ability to think on your feet and remain calm under pressure while solving problems in real-time. There's a lot to learn, so the desire and ability to rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills is paramount. We work in a collaborative team environment, so a willingness and ability to get help from team members when required, and good judgment to know when to seek help, is essential. We also aim to have diverse technical backgrounds and therefore different subject matter expertise is welcome.

You do not need to have prior experience with MongoDB. We can teach you that! 

  • Fluency in conveying technical discussion in Mandarin
  • Experience with authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, AD
  • Experience using or managing MongoDB
  • Experience using distributed version control systems, and in particular git
  • Experience using any cloud services stack such as AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration systems using vendor-specific Enterprise operators
  • In 3 months, you'll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
  • In 6 months, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
  • In 12 months, you will be a part of a technical experts group within MongoDB and will be helping your peer engineers in advance diagnostics. Also, you will be encouraged to handle technical escalations independently