# Lead, Engineering Backup

**Company**: MongoDB
**Location**: New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Description

MongoDB is seeking a Lead, Engineering Backup to join the Atlas Infinite Backup team. This hands-on leadership role involves managing a team of engineers working on distributed storage systems, ensuring durability, recoverability, and cost efficiency of backup storage.

### Responsibilities

The Atlas Infinite Backup team builds systems for point-in-time recovery, retained snapshots, fast restores, disaster recovery, and backup storage. As a Lead, Engineering Backup, you will:

- Lead, grow, and manage a team of 6 engineers working in Rust and Java on distributed storage systems;

- Own the team's roadmap across durability, recoverability, cost efficiency, and compliance;

- Drive the Atlas Infinite backup roadmap to GA and beyond;

- Manage customer escalations involving backup, restore, or backup cost;

- Partner closely with cross-functional teams on features such as incremental billing and cold collections;

- Raise the bar on engineering practice, including design reviews and operational readiness.

### Requirements

- 8+ years of experience building, debugging, and operating distributed storage, database, or large-scale data infrastructure systems;

- 2+ years of experience managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and coaching;

- Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically-typed language such as Rust, Java, C++, or Go;

- Deep understanding of durability, consistency, and recovery tradeoffs;

- Experience with snapshots, point-in-time recovery, log-structured storage, compaction, or cloud object storage is highly desirable.

### Success Measures

In three months, you will have built strong relationships with your team and key partner teams, taken over team ceremonies, and co-led at least one active project. In six to twelve months, you will have led at least one cross-team initiative and delivered a multi-quarter project with clear impact on Atlas Infinite's GA readiness.

### Benefits

MongoDB offers a supportive and enriching culture, including employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and a generous parental leave policy.

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## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- Java
- distributed storage systems
- backup and recovery systems
- cloud object storage

### Nice to have
- C++
- Go

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