Senior Director of Engineering, MongoDB
Developer Productivity
$168-330k
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Modern data platform
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Modern data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$168-330k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems; experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering is a strong plus
- 6+ years of experience managing multiple teams and building a strong bench of leaders in a geographically distributed organization with a track-record of success in hiring, performance management, and fostering a team growth mindset
- Have a track record of scaling large software systems used by software engineers, ideally including CI/CD, release, or other developer infrastructure platforms with large scale workloads
- Bring strong judgment across both developer-facing product experience and underlying platform architecture, including user workflows, system reliability, operational insight, and service scalability
- Have experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code principles; experience with Kubernetes and AWS is especially valuable
- Understand how to use telemetry, metrics, and analytics to improve developer productivity and operational health
- Have experience or strong familiarity with software supply chain and release concerns, including reliability, security, and operational rigor
- Be able to define strategy and drive execution in ambiguous environments with broad organizational impact, acting as a trusted escalation point for complex technical and organizational trade-offs
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Director to lead our Pipeline team. This role is tasked with bringing together the major systems and experiences that power software delivery at MongoDB
- The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, secure, and effective platform for ensuring fast software deployability, leveraging AI native approaches
- The Pipeline organization sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for the systems, services, and user experiences that define MongoDB’s software delivery ecosystem
- This is mission-critical infrastructure operating at substantial scale and supports a variety of software product delivery needs. Success in this role requires excellent product judgment for developer-facing experiences, strong systems and platform leadership, and the ability to align multiple teams around a cohesive strategy
- We’re looking for a senior engineering leader who can unify product-minded developer tooling with deep platform and operational excellence. The right candidate is passionate about developer productivity and has a track record of leading managers and teams through organizational growth, technical complexity, and cross-functional change
- They should be comfortable owning a broad portfolio that spans developer experience, reliability and scale, release systems, telemetry, and operational health
- They should also be able to work effectively with senior leaders and partners across engineering and product to set direction, allocate resources, and make trade-offs that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform function
- Own the strategy, execution, and operating model for MongoDB’s end-to-end software delivery pipeline across continuous integration and release enablement functions
- Set portfolio priorities and resource allocation in partnership with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing urgent delivery needs with long-term platform investments
- Improve the experience of internal engineering users while also raising the bar on reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency
- Establish and evolve mechanisms for measuring developer productivity, system health, and business impact across the pipeline portfolio
- Build a healthy, high-performing organization by growing managers, strengthening succession depth, and creating clarity around expectations, accountability, and career development
- Serve as a senior escalation point for critical trade-offs and cross-functional issues, ensuring decisions are aligned to company priorities and understood in terms of their downstream consequences
- Leads a large, strategic organization with a positive and inclusive culture while setting a high bar for accountability and execution
- Demonstrates mastery of both verbal and written communication to navigate a global organizational structure that utilizes a mix of synchronous and asynchronous engagement
- Collaborates effectively with leadership and partner teams to coordinate priorities, improve processes, and strengthen MongoDB’s software development ecosystem
- Makes sound decisions on planning, staffing, and organizational structure, and knows when to optimize locally versus for the broader business
- Acts like an owner for MongoDB’s broader engineering success, not just the direct organization they lead
- Success measures:
- In three months, you have built strong relationships with your managers and key partners, assessed the current pipeline portfolio, and identified the highest-leverage opportunities across reliability, developer experience
- In six months, you have established a strategic direction and roadmap for the Pipeline organization, advising on structure and long-term investment choices, and operating as a trusted escalation point for major delivery and platform trade-offs
- In twelve months, you have accelerated
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organizations modernize their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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