Lead Engineer, Storage Layer Services

Summary

Join MongoDB's Storage Layer Services Team as a Team Lead and lead a team of engineers in building and enhancing the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems underlying Atlas. You will be responsible for managing a team, leading projects, and contributing to the design and implementation of new functionality. This role requires 3+ years of team management experience and 8+ years of experience building production-level code. A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required, along with expertise in distributed systems and data storage. The position offers the opportunity to work remotely or in various office locations and includes benefits such as a generous parental leave policy and employee affinity groups.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, compensation planning, mentoring and growing strong software engineering teams
• 8+ years of experience building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. Experience in data management systems and systems integration is ideal
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers and lead projects
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Solid experience in designing, writing, testing, and maintaining highly distributed systems and/or data storage software
• Experience with large backend/compiled codebases and compiled languages, preferably in Rust/Go/Java
• Regardless of prior experience, they are willing, able, and excited to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering. They are curious about how people and organizations use MongoDB, and how MongoDB storage services could be improved to enable more use cases

Responsibilities

• Onboard onto a highly technical product as an individual contributor to gain product knowledge before taking on managerial responsibilities
• Actively participate in hiring for the Storage Layer Services team
• Lead and grow other engineers to coordinate seamless changes in a growing, feature-rich code base
• Implement and operate (oncall) production-ready applications
• Work with product managers, program managers, and other teams to specify, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users
• Estimate task complexity, report progress, and voice risks for projects executed by reports
• Ensure that the team is running smoothly by helping to eliminate technical barriers, coordinating with other teams regarding dependencies, and focusing on the overall happiness of the team
• Contribute to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, future hiring plans, and assignment of projects
• Lead the design and implementation of new functionality in Storage Layer Service product’s availability and stability
• Estimates the delivery timeline for projects, and communicates well with upper management regarding project execution

Preferred Qualifications

Professional or advanced academic expertise in the domains of data storage is preferable but not required

Benefits

From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy