Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity

We’re looking for an Engineering Director with strong technical and leadership experience who will take on the challenge of upleveling our development infrastructure platform and the hundreds of thousands of compute hours it sustains on a daily basis.

The ideal candidate is passionate about developer tools, distributed systems, telemetry and metrics, and excited about the opportunity to lead a team with a big impact on the foundation of MongoDB’s software development ecosystem.  You will work closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure the long term robustness, scalability, and security of our software pipeline.

The right candidate for this role will 

• Have at least 5 years of experience in development and operations
• Have experience leading multiple teams through effective communication, collaboration, and a growth mindset.
• Have experience building leadership skills in others.
• Proven success in evolving and scaling large software systems, especially those with software engineers as consumers
• Be familiar with scaling both self-hosted and cloud solutions using IaC principles.  Kubernetes and Terraform experience preferred.
• Active knowledge in tools, systems, and processes impacting developer productivity, including leveraging analytics to measure developer productivity and operational health
• Have strong experience with AWS. GCP and Azure is a plus.
• Have experience in secure software supply chain management.
• Have knowledge or strong interest in learning Go, Python.

Positive Expectations

• Leads multiple engineering teams by creating a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively setting direction and removing blockers for the team.
• Collaborates with leadership and other teams to coordinate priorities, improve processes, and enhance and maintain a rich software development ecosystem.
• Makes technical contributions to the team’s area of work
• Provides feedback on the functionality, design, and timeline of new features or system enhancements.
• Is a resource for internal product design and development within the organization
• Successful experience with hiring, mentoring and growing strong, geographically distributed software engineering teams
• Deep sense of ownership, accountability, and pride

Success Measures

• By three months, you will have made technical contributions, learned about the team’s roadmap, and developed relationships with your team and leaders on other teams.
• By six months, you will have taken on full responsibility for a set of upcoming projects, and come to understand strengths and areas for growth for individuals and leads on your team.
• By twelve months, you will be able to manage and advise engineers on projects, including giving technical as well as career advice and evaluating performance. You will have the context to be a voice for the team, set strategic direction, and advise on overall organization structure.