Director, Engineering

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · PTO Atlas Data Services

Seeking a Director of Engineering to lead teams responsible for building and maintaining MongoDB Atlas, a globally distributed database-as-a-service offering. This role involves managing software development, interfacing with cloud providers, and ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of the platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead teams of motivated leads and individual contributors who are eager to learn and grow
  2. Work with stakeholders throughout MongoDB to build our roadmap and product offerings
  3. Collaborate with product management and technical senior leadership to design, develop, and ship improvements to the Atlas Clusters Control Plane and Data Plane
  4. Ensure smooth and timely execution of projects while collaborating and providing visibility to all stakeholders
  5. Work with customers during escalations and become part of our on-call rotation

Skills

Required

  • people management
  • software development
  • leading engineering teams
  • large scale systems
  • distributed backend systems
  • cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • communication skills

Nice to have

  • collaboration
  • customer escalations
  • on-call rotation

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 5 years of people management experience
  • at least 8 years of professional software development experience
  • led engineering teams that have built and maintained large scale systems
  • Proven success in designing, writing, testing, and maintaining large-scale, distributed backend systems