Lead, Platform Engineering
MongoDB · Posted Oct 22
Modern database platform, cloud database-as-a-service, vector search, and developer data services
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About the role
The Infrastructure Engineering team builds and maintains a self-service internal development platform that enables MongoDB engineering teams to reliably deploy and operate their own production services and products. The team works heavily with open source tooling including Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Helm, Drone, Prometheus, and Grafana. This lead role defines and executes platform projects, manages and mentors a team of platform engineers, and writes and reviews automation, configuration management, and application code.
What you will do
- Define, plan, and execute projects that help to run, grow, and transform MongoDB's self-service internal developer platform
- Take on direct reports and organize work for a team of platform engineers in coordination with other engineering leads
- "Lead by example" and act as a mentor to other engineers
- Work with engineering teams across MongoDB to investigate gaps and limitations in existing development workflows and understand new infrastructure and platform requirements
- Regularly write and review automation, configuration management, and application code
- Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services
- Own and operate much of the internal development platform that runs MongoDB
- Work on a distributed team that frequently interacts with remote engineers across multiple time zones (PST, EST, GMT, IST)
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of 3+ engineers
- Has 5+ years of experience owning the design and implementation of large software/infrastructure projects
- Has built and operated large-scale distributed systems in cloud providers (AWS strongly preferred)
- Has a strong backend programming background. Fluency in Go is strongly preferred; deep experience with another compiled or strongly-typed backend language is acceptable
- Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and understands the benefits of collaboration
- Strong experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, not just deployed to it
- Has practical experience defining and operating against SLI/SLOs for services they owned
- Strong experience with observability tooling: metrics, logging, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills
- Familiar with standard authentication protocols (OAuth, OIDC)
- Familiar with web services and/or Kubernetes controller development
- Strong experience using CI/CD workflows to deploy production services
- Has experience working with AI coding agents and can demonstrate building high quality context to yield high quality outputs
Benefits and support
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Generous parental leave policy
About MongoDB
MongoDB is a modern, general-purpose database platform designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and enterprises globally. Its flagship cloud database service, MongoDB Atlas, supports flexible document models, vector search, and transactional capabilities built for modern cloud and AI-driven workloads.
- Industry
- Database Software
- Company size
- 5741 employees
- Founded
- 2007
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $311M raised
- 2015-01-01Series F$80M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Customer Officer
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