Platform Database Engineer, MongoDB

Valtech

Platform Database Engineer responsible for managing MongoDB Atlas in cloud environments. Collaborating with teams to ensure database performance and scalability while ensuring security and compliance.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSEC2KubernetesLinuxMongoDBPrometheusPythonSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non‑Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi‑region failover.
Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams throughout all SDLC phases.
Develop and manage infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation.
Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.
Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to continuously improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Lead incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.
Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years administering MongoDB Atlas.
Strong experience with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).
Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).
Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.
Strong Linux administration expertise and scripting skills (Python, Bash).
Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
Ability to participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
Travel requirement: <10%.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

MongoDBMongoDB AtlasTerraformGitOpsCI/CD automationLinux administrationPythonBashdatabase performance optimizationdisaster recovery strategies

Soft Skills

analytical skillscommunication skillsdocumentation skillsmentoringcollaborationincident responseroot cause analysisoperational excellence