Description
The Infrastructure Engineering team at MongoDB is responsible for building and maintaining a self-service internal development platform that enables MongoDB engineering teams to reliably deploy and operate their own production services and products.
We are looking for a Lead, Platform Engineering to manage and mentor a team of platform engineers in Gurugram. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of 3+ engineers, 5+ years of experience owning the design and implementation of large software/infrastructure projects, and strong experience with cloud providers (AWS strongly preferred).
Responsibilities:
- Define, plan, and execute projects that help to run, grow, and transform MongoDB's self-service internal developer platform
- Take on direct reports and organize work for a team of platform engineers in coordination with other engineering leads
- Lead by example and act as a mentor to other engineers
- Work with engineering teams across MongoDB to investigate gaps and limitations in existing development workflows and understand new infrastructure and platform requirements
- Regularly write and review automation, configuration management, and application code
- Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services
- Own and operate much of the internal development platform that runs MongoDB
- Work on a distributed team that frequently interacts with remote engineers across multiple time zones
Success Measures:
- In three months you'll have familiarized yourself with our teams and systems, taken on direct reports, and will be participating in high level scoping and roadmapping for platform projects
- In six months you'll have successfully investigated, scoped, and documented medium to large sized platform projects, and coordinated implementation with your direct reports
- In a year you'll have delivered measurable key results driven by a deep understanding of the goals/mission of Infrastructure Engineering, the needs of our stakeholders, and the objectives of MongoDB
We offer a hybrid working model, and our employees enjoy various benefits, including employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and a generous parental leave policy.