Senior Manager, Technical Services Engineering

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Austin, TX · Technical Support AMER

This role is for a Senior Manager of Technical Services Engineering at MongoDB. The primary focus is on leading regional teams of Support Engineers who troubleshoot issues related to MongoDB's core database functionality and cloud services. While the role requires an understanding of how AI systems interact with data platforms and how AI can enhance team operations, the core responsibility is managing technical support and customer-facing engineering teams, not directly building or researching AI models. The role emphasizes operational excellence, people management, and deep technical knowledge of database technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Diagnosing and resolving performance related issues
  2. Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency and meeting data sovereignty requirements
  3. Advising on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution
  4. Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues
  5. Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years managing technical support or customer-facing engineering teams
  • Scaling operations
  • Implementing process improvements
  • Elevating team performance
  • Operational excellence
  • Metrics-driven improvements
  • Designing scalable workflows
  • Optimizing resource allocation
  • People development
  • Coaching technical talent
  • Deep technical foundation across multiple database technologies (relational, NoSQL, distributed systems)
  • Hands-on experience diagnosing complex production issues
  • Project leadership
  • Cross-functional technical initiatives
  • Coordination across engineering, product, and support
  • Understanding of how modern AI systems interact with data platforms
  • Experience supporting AI-driven applications
  • Balancing technical depth with strategic thinking
  • Reviewing query execution plans
  • Presenting operational roadmaps to executives
  • Building and refining KPIs
  • Implementing tooling improvements
  • Using data to drive team decisions
  • Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
  • Leading-by-example during critical escalations
  • Full people management lifecycle (hiring, performance management, succession planning)
  • Translating organizational strategy to individual development plans
  • Calibrating communication for diverse audiences

Nice to have

  • Prior work at a database company
  • Managing support for highly concurrent distributed systems in production
  • Scaled SaaS customer facing role experience
  • Experience with modern observability, analytics, and automation tools
  • Familiarity with how AI can enhance team operations
  • Track record of process innovation
  • Developing analytical dashboards using tools like Tableau
  • Implementing data-driven approaches to operational planning

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years managing technical support or customer-facing engineering teams
  • Proven track record in operational excellence
  • Strong people development philosophy
  • Deep technical foundation across multiple database technologies
  • Project leadership experience
  • Exposure to AI/ML technologies
  • Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills