Director, Engineering

We are seeking a Director to join and lead the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team at MongoDB. The team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration tooling, as well as developing and delivering modern disaster recovery systems and managed migration solutions.

The successful candidate will have at least 7 years of experience in a management position, experience as a manager of engineering managers, and proven success with hiring, mentoring, and growing strong geographically distributed software engineering teams.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring smooth and timely execution of projects
• Contributing ideas and working with Product Management and technical leadership to build a roadmap for the team's deliverables
• Allocating team resources and balancing efforts between building new features and supporting/maintaining previous releases
• Providing direction to the team on balancing short-term results with long-term goals
• Growing the organization and ensuring desirable skill composition, high job satisfaction, and vibrant culture

Success measures include:

• Within 3 months: knowing team members' strengths and professional objectives, understanding the technical architecture of the migration tooling, and contributing to technical discussions
• Within 6 months: ensuring team delivers with high quality and predictability, supervising the short-term planning process, and establishing working professional relationships with other key leads and directors
• Within 12 months: having a vision for the future of cluster-to-cluster data movement, having a plan to execute that vision, and driving experiments and changes to procedures and processes to optimize team velocity and scaling