Lead Engineer, Storage Layer Services

Summary

Join MongoDB's Storage Layer Services Team as a Team Lead and lead the engineering team in enhancing the performance, scalability, and reliability of Atlas's distributed systems. You will be responsible for managing a team, overseeing projects, and contributing to the design and implementation of new features. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering, distributed systems, and team management. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work on high-impact projects. The role can be based in NYC, other office hubs, or remotely in the US/Canada. MongoDB values a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

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

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings
• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program