MongoDB Technical Services Engineering Team uses their exceptional problem solving and customer service skills, along with their deep technical experience, to advise customers and to solve their complex MongoDB problems like:
- Consulting on application or schema design
- Optimizing performance and solving scalability issues
- Resolving production outages
- Designing and reviewing operational procedures like business continuity plans
- Explaining the internals of MongoDB
If You’re Passionate About The Opportunity To- Manage a fast growing team of engineers focused on troubleshooting production systems
- Champion customer’s needs and contribute to the evolution of our Developer Data Platform
Responsibilities- Drive customer success by guiding the team to solve fascinating technical problems, all the way from design through to production operations. This includes managing their team’s workflow, assisting on hands-on customer issues and managing both internal and external escalations
- Work in conjunction with the team Manager, assuming day-to-day operational responsibilities for the team. This includes tasks such as hiring, training, mentoring, meetings and performance evaluations
- Contribute to internal technical projects which can include software development, benchmarking, building documentation and training guides and providing oversight on other engineers’ project work
- Ensure we are investing the right resources, addressing the right problems and scaling the organization properly to fuel our hyper-growth. This means you’ll also be expected to drive monthly and quarterly pain and bug reports to Engineering, improve operational workflows with internal teams at MongoDB, coordinate regional trainings, summits and conferences as well as focus on how we address market demand for our product and services more broadly
Requirements- 2+ years of prior experience leading teams either directly or indirectly
- Patience, empathy and a genuine desire to help others
- Strong background in one or more of the following (ideally with some experience in the rest)
- Software development/design
- Systems Administration, Linux preferred
- Database administration
- Performance tuning and benchmarking
- Providing technical support to internal and/or external customers
- Configuration and usage of common cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Networking knowledge, including firewalls and load balancers
- ~10 years of Experience managing large-scale databases (RDBMS or NoSQL or both)
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- The ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure and find solutions to challenges in real-time
- Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting process with significant experience troubleshooting end-to-end technical issues in production environments
Nice to have
- Experience using or managing MongoDB
- Experience coding in one or more of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript