Remote Vice President of Engineering

Summary

Join MongoDB as a dynamic and strategic Vice President of Engineering to shape the long-term strategy of observability at MongoDB, and deliver cutting-edge monitoring, observability and diagnostic features across our product suite.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of the monitoring and observability domain with a deep understanding of industry trends and best practices
• 10+ years of experience leading software engineering teams, including experience leading across multiple management levels
• A proven track record of defining and communicating strategic vision, mobilizing teams to deliver the outcome, and demonstrating strong ownership and accountability; The role requires both direct team leadership and indirect leadership through influence across departments to successfully deliver on the observability strategy
• Experience building, evolving and scaling complex distributed systems and/or database management systems, with a focus on high-performance and reliability
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A demonstrated commitment to fostering an inclusive and high-functioning team environment, and to developing future leaders
• Proven ability to influence peers across the organization, and engage with customers to understand their needs

Responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of our full stack product observability strategy, including the metrics and statistics internals of the MongoDB product suite
• Ensure the security, reliability, scalability, and performance of MongoDB’s observability services, with millions of users globally
• Complete the transformation of our metrics pipeline, evolving it from a database-specific architecture to a flexible open-source standard-based pipeline (leveraging OpenTelemetry and PromQL) that can support all current and future MongoDB Atlas products
• Lead efforts to simplify performance diagnostics, making it effortless for our support teams to resolve issues, and enabling engineering teams to continuously improve our products
• Transform MongoDB auto-scaling strategy, leveraging real-time inference, and developing the next generation of index suggestions - moving from traditional algorithms to machine learning models to drive even greater efficiency
• Evolve our centralized metrics service to ensure seamless integration with popular third party platforms like DataDog, New Relic, Dynatrace, and others
• Identify and capitalize on emerging trends and technologies in observability and monitoring, translating them into forward-thinking product and service strategies that keep MongoDB at the forefront of the industry

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