MongoDB Director Engineering C2C 

Ireland, Dublin 

249988784

• At least 5 years of experience in a management position. Experience as a manager of engineering managers is a plus
• Proven success with hiring for, mentoring and growing strong geographically distributed software engineering teams
• Commitment to building and fostering a diverse and supportive culture
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and strong desire for cross-team collaboration
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to make and evaluate realistic assessments of project complexity
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases. Golang knowledge is a plus, systems programming language familiarity is required (go, rust, C++, C)
• Has led the launch of new features and maintained them in production with a high level of observability and operational excellence
• Familiarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance is a plus
• Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems is a plus

• Ensure smooth and timely execution of projects
• Contribute ideas and work with Product Management as well as technical and senior leadership to build a roadmap for the team’s deliverables
• Appropriately allocate team resources, balancing efforts between building new features and supporting/maintaining previous releases
• Provide direction to the team on balancing short-term results with long-term goals
• Grow your organization ensuring desirable skill composition, high job satisfaction and vibrant culture
• Delegate effectively splitting your own time between technical and management aspects of the position
• Lead by example, assuring the team operates with company core values, engineering cultural standards, and our leadership commitment in mind
• Serve as a representative for your team within the larger engineering organization

Within 3 months:

• Know your team members’ strengths and professional objectives
• Understand and be able to explain the technical architecture of the migration tooling, live migrate, and disaster recovery components
• Contribute in technical discussions and provide meaningful reviews of team members’ technical documents based on your prior experience

Within 6 months:

• Provide a code contribution to your team’s components
• Ensure team delivers with high quality and predictability
• Supervise the short-term (quarterly and annual) planning process for your team
• Establish working professional relationships with other key leads and directors
• Mentor team leaders
• Supervise hiring and retention for your team

Within 12 months:

• Have a vision for the future of cluster-to-cluster data movement and the components aligned with your teams
• Have a plan to execute that vision along with planning for team growth
• Represent team interests and work with other stakeholders to balance priorities among requests from other teams to come up with quarterly and yearly roadmaps
• Drive experiments and changes to procedures and processes to optimize team velocity and scaling