MondayDB Infrastructure Tech Lead, monday.com
+ Bonus + RSUs
3 days a week in office (Fitzrovia, London)
A global software company transforming how businesses run
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A global software company transforming how businesses run
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus + RSUs
3 days a week in office (Fitzrovia, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower organisations of any size to run better, faster, and smarter.
Role
Who you are
- Note: Prior experience with our exact stack is not required; we welcome people willing to learn
- 6+ years building and operating distributed, large-scale backend systems
- Deep expertise in distributed systems - storage, concurrency, consistency, performance, failure modes
- Hands-on production experience on a major cloud (AWS preferred) and Kubernetes
- Strong working knowledge of at least one of DynamoDB, Cassandra, DuckDB, or comparable distributed datastores and a clear sense of when to reach for which
- Track record of running tier-1 services and meeting tight SLOs
- Comfort with workflow orchestration (Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, Step Functions, or similar) and the trade-offs involved
- A bias toward ownership: happy on-call for the systems you build, proud of making them boring to operate
- Excellent communication, empathy, and a commitment to quality and simplicity
What the job involves
- We are scaling our engineering teams in London and we are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to join the team building and owning the infrastructure behind mondayDB - our in-house distributed database powering every board, dashboard, and workflow on the platform
- We built mondayDB ourselves since nothing off the shelf could power 250,000+ customers at the scale and speed monday.com needs
- Now that monday.com is rebuilding around AI agents working alongside humans, every agent action lands on mondayDB and the next order of magnitude in scale, latency, trust and reliability is the foundation the agentic platform runs on
- Some of the group challenges:
- Four 9s of availability across the services we own
- Aggregating data from 5,000 boards in under 5 seconds
- Supporting up to 10M items per board with p99 load times under 4 seconds
- Aggregating 50M items per dashboard
- Serving 100K+ requests per second
- Enabling large data mutation in a reliable way
- Importing and exporting data at scale
- Own mondayDB’s infrastructure end-to-end. Tier-1 services on AWS, our Temporal.io cluster, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, DuckDB, Node.js and Go microservices on Kubernetes - architect, build, evolve, operate
- Drive the roadmap. Identify the bottlenecks, frame the bets, push the work forward. Tech Leads set technical direction here, not just execute it
- Push the limits of scale and reliability. Hold four 9s while scaling to billions of items, 100K+ RPS, and dashboards aggregating 50M items in seconds
- Build the orchestration layer. Design the Temporal-based workflows that move data through mondayDB - ingestion, indexing, aggregation, recovery
- Get the best out of every datastore. Tune and operate the right tool for each access pattern - DynamoDB, Cassandra, DuckDB, and the glue between them
- Own production. On-call for what you build. Tier-1 ownership means being on the hook and trusted to build systems that almost never need you
- Raise the bar. Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, set the patterns the whole group builds on
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Monday.com is a customisable work OS where teams create and shape workflow apps in minutes to plan, run, and track their processes, projects, and operations for organisations of all sizes. The code-free platform adapts to shifting needs quickly, liberates teams from manual grunt work, and connects teams in a collaborative work space. Ultimately, its agile product suite transforms the way that businesses run and is applicable across many use cases.
The company’s products are gaining increasing popularity with customers seeking ways to manage employees who are increasingly working from home. Within the collaboration tools market, Monday.com hopes to position itself as the ever-powerful and smart go-to place to get an overview of everything that’s happening in teams, with low chat noise and no need for technical knowledge to gain understanding. It's been picked up by over 245,000 companies worldwide, including household brands such as Coca Cola, Hulu and Universal Music Group.
Since listing publically and gaining IPO status in 2019, Monday's revenue and subscription base have continued to grow despite economic headwinds in the overall tech sector. Long term, the founders believe they can grow the company to a secure No. 1 spot. They plan to do this by capitalising on the growing uptake of remote working and no-code customisation over the next decade.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Niall Weekes, Account Manager (Enterprise AM)
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Equity (monday shares) grants
- Wellness benefits
- Pet-friendly offices
- Hybrid working
- Private Health insurance
- Income protection & Life Insurance
- Generous Pension Scheme with matching employer contribution
Company values
- Transparency
- Impact
- Data-driven
- Ownership
- Inclusivity
- Accountability
Company HQ
London
Articles
Leadership
Roy Mann
(Co-CEO)Previously CTO at Wix and two-time former CEO of internet startups.
Eran Zinman
(Co-CEO)Founded Conduit Mobile, and has extensive software development experience.
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