Technical Services Engineer

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Technical Support EMEA

This role is for a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB, focusing on solving complex customer problems related to the MongoDB ecosystem, including database server, drivers, cloud services like Atlas, and Cloud Manager. Responsibilities include advising customers on architecture, performance, recovery, and security, acting as an expert resource on running MongoDB at scale, and advocating for customer needs to product and development teams. The role also involves contributing to internal support tools for performance, benchmarking, and diagnostics. The ideal candidate needs strong technical experience in systems administration, distributed systems, network administration, database architecture, application architecture, data architecture, or performance tuning. Experience with various programming languages and cloud platforms is a plus. Crucial skills include excellent communication, problem-solving, diagnostic abilities, ability to learn quickly, and teamwork.

What you'd actually do

  1. You'll be working alongside our largest customers, solving their complex challenges - resolving questions on architecture, performance, recovery, security, and everything in between.
  2. You'll be an expert resource on best practices in running MongoDB at scale, whatever that scale may be.
  3. You'll be an advocate for customers' needs - interfacing with our product management and development teams on their behalf.
  4. And you'll contribute to internal projects, including software development of support tools for performance, benchmarking, and diagnostics.

Skills

Required

  • Systems administration
  • Distributed systems
  • Network Administration
  • Database architecture and administration
  • Application Architecture
  • Data architecture and design
  • Performance tuning and benchmarking
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Genuine desire to help people
  • Uncontrollable urge to investigate and solve problems, with advanced diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure and solve problems in real-time
  • Desire and ability to rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills
  • Strong teamwork: willingness and ability to get help from team members when required, and the good judgment to know when to seek help

Nice to have

  • Java
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Javascript
  • node.js
  • Go
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • administering large-scale production environments
  • hardware
  • operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows)
  • networks (including firewalls and load balancers)
  • cloud-based resources (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

What the JD emphasized

  • deep technical experience
  • experts in the entire MongoDB ecosystem
  • strong technical experience
  • operations background
  • advanced diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
  • rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills