Lead Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Atlas Stream Processing team as a Lead Engineer and provide technical leadership, architecting and implementing core parts of the stream processing architecture. Lead and grow an engineering team, contributing to challenging projects that enhance performance, scalability, and reliability. Collaborate with various teams to define and deliver new features. Take ownership of planning, execution, monitoring, and maintenance of developed systems. The role involves mentoring, hiring, and resource allocation. The position offers flexible work models (in-office, flexible, or fully remote) in the US or Toronto.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and experience with a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of 3+ engineers and providing technical leadership
• Track record in hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing software engineering teams, experience working with remote teams and a passion for mentoring and career development of the team
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with colleagues, other teams, and lead projects
• Strong background in building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning and workload optimization) and distributed systems
• Have led the launch of new features and maintained them in production

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software engineers, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Make coding contributions to the team’s projects
• Work with product managers, program managers, design & analytics teams and other teams to define, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users and drive platform improvements
• Take responsibility for the planning and execution of major features, raise delivery risks
• Own the monitoring, operations, and maintenance of the systems your team develops
• Enable the team to operate efficiently by removing technical obstacles, coordinating with other teams on dependencies, and prioritizing the team's overall well-being
• Contribute to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, participate in hiring and assignment of projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. Kubernetes) and observability tools
• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match
• Mental health counseling
• Backup child and elder care
• Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings