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 as mongosync, as well as developing and delivering modern disaster recovery systems and managed migration solutions as part of the Atlas Live Migration service. Our tooling is critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas as well as making sure important data workloads stay online in the event of an outage.
Qualifications
At least 5 years of experience in a management position. Experience as a manager of engineering managers is a plus
Proven success with hiring for, mentoring and growing strong geographically distributed software engineering teams
Commitment to building and fostering a diverse and supportive culture
Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and strong desire for cross‑team collaboration
Excellent time management skills and the ability to make and evaluate realistic assessments of project complexity
Proven 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 excellence
Familiarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance is a plus
Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems is a plus
Position Expectations
Ensure smooth and timely execution of projects
Contribute ideas and work with Product Management as well as technical and senior leadership to build a roadmap for the team’s deliverables
Appropriately allocate team resources, balancing efforts between building new features and supporting/maintaining previous releases
Provide direction to the team on balancing short‑term results with long‑term goals
Grow your organization ensuring desirable skill composition, high job satisfaction and vibrant culture
Delegate effectively splitting your own time between technical and management aspects of the position
Lead by example, assuring the team operates with company core values, engineering cultural standards, and our leadership commitment in mind
Serve as a representative for your team within the larger engineering organization
Success Measures
Within 3 months
Know your team members’ strengths and professional objectives
Understand and be able to explain the technical architecture of the migration tooling, live migrate, and disaster recovery components
Contribute in technical discussions and provide meaningful reviews of team members’ technical documents based on your prior experience
Within 6 months
Provide a code contribution to your team’s components
Ensure team delivers with high quality and predictability
Supervise the short‑term (quarterly and annual) planning process for your team
Establish working professional relationships with other key leads and directors
Mentor team leaders
Supervise hiring and retention for your team
Within 12 months
Have a vision for the future of cluster‑to‑cluster data movement and the components aligned with your teams
Have a plan to execute that vision along with planning for team growth
Represent team interests and work with other stakeholders to balance priorities among requests from other teams to come up with quarterly and yearly roadmaps
Drive 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. MongoDB’s 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.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
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