Senior Manager, Engineering
MongoDB · Posted Sep 30
Modern database platform, cloud database-as-a-service, vector search, and developer data services
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About the role
MongoDB's Bengaluru Product & Technology team is building a new platform that makes it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. The engineering teams build high-quality distributed systems and cloud infrastructure software, with MongoDB Atlas serving as a globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This role leads and grows an engineering team, provides technical direction and architecture, and drives the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for the new product.
What you will do
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement
- Drive the architectural vision for the platform, ensuring it runs equally well on public clouds, private cloud environments and on-premise
- Work with product managers, program managers, design & analytics teams and other teams to define, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users and drive platform improvements
- Take responsibility for the planning and execution of major features, raise delivery risks
- Own the monitoring, operations, and maintenance of the systems your team develops
- Enable the team to operate efficiently by removing technical obstacles, coordinating with other teams on dependencies, and prioritizing the team's overall well-being
- Contribute to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, participate in hiring and assignment of projects
- In the first month, you’ll have understood the surface area, the high level architecture of the new platform. You’ll have initiated one-on-one’s with your team members
- In three months, you’ll have on-boarded onto the team and contributed to the design and development of a core platform capability. Additionally started helping the team hiring and growth
- In six months, you will have taken on full responsibility for projects slated for the subsequent quarter. You’ll have started growth conversations with your team members and begun to understand their longer-term career aspirations
- In twelve months, you’ll have led the development of multiple new features and performed a full annual cycle of performance and growth conversations with your team members. Additionally, you’ll have contributed to the vision for the future of the platform and helped develop a plan to achieve that vision
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and experience in languages like Python, Golang, Java or Rust
- 4+ years of experience managing a team of 6+ engineers and providing technical leadership
- Track record in hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing software engineering teams, experience working with remote teams and a passion for mentoring and career development of the team
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with colleagues, other teams, and lead projects
- Strong background in building core components for high-scale compute or data processing / distributed systems
- Have led the launch of new features and maintained them in production
- Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
- Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
- Eager to learn, with a strong technical background
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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