We are seeking a Director to join and lead the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team. We are working to make migration and recovery of MongoDB clusters easy, fast, and reliable. This team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration tooling such asmongosync, as well as developing and delivering modern disaster recovery systems and managed migration solutions as part of the Atlas Live Migration service. Our tooling and is critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas as well as making sure important data workloads stay online in the event of an outage.Our global team is growing fast. We are hiring remote engineers across Europe and locally in Dublin. This rapid growth requires a Director who will help the team meet its ambitious growth goals for both people and projects.We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Successful candidates will have a majority of the following qualities At least 5 years of experience in a management position. Experience as a manager of engineering managers is a plusProven success with hiring for, mentoring and growing strong geographically distributed software engineering teamsCommitment to building and fostering a diverse and supportive cultureExcellent verbal and written technical communication skills and strong desire for cross-team collaborationExcellent time management skills and the ability to make and evaluate realistic assessments of project complexityProven success in designing, writing, testing and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases. Golang knowledge is a plus, systems programming language familiarity is required (go, rust, C++, C)Has led the launch of new features and maintained them in production with a high level of observability and operational excellenceFamiliarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance is a plusFamiliarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems is a plus Position Expectations Ensure smooth and timely execution of projectsContribute ideas and work with Product Management as well as technical and senior leadership to build a roadmap for the team's deliverablesAppropriately allocate team resources, balancing efforts between building new features and supporting/maintaining previous releasesProvide direction to the team on balancing short-term results with long-term goalsGrow your organization ensuring desirable skill composition, high job satisfaction and vibrant cultureDelegate effectively splitting your own time between technical and management aspects of the positionLead by example, assuring the team operates with company core values, engineering cultural standards, and our leadership commitment in mindServe as a representative for your team within the larger engineering organization Success Measures Within 3 months:Know your team members' strengths and professional objectivesUnderstand and be able to explain the technical architecture of the migration tooling, live migrate, and disaster recovery componentsContribute in technical discussions and provide meaningful reviews of team members' technical documents based on your prior experienceWithin 6 months:Provide a code contribution to your team's componentsEnsure team delivers with high quality and predictabilitySupervise the short-term (quarterly and annual) planning process for your teamEstablish working professional relationships with other key leads and directorsMentor team leadersSupervise hiring and retention for your teamWithin 12 months:Have a vision for the future of cluster-to-cluster data movement and the components aligned with your teamsHave a plan to execute that vision along with planning for team growthRepresent team interests and work with other stakeholders to balance priorities among requests from other teams to come up with quarterly and yearly roadmapsDrive experiments and changes to procedures and processes to optimize team velocity and scaling About MongoDB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB's unified database platform-the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market-helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers-including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups-relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It's what makes us MongoDB.MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. 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