# Director, Engineering

**Company**: MongoDB
**Location**: Cork
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Golang
- systems programming languages
- distributed systems
- database internals

### Nice to have
- Rust
- C++
- C

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