Lead Engineer, Query

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Join the MongoDB Server Query team, and help us build a world-class distributed open source query engine. Our team plays a crucial role in the experience and performance of data processing. We are responsible for the MongoDB Query Language and the lifecycle of each query, from parsing to optimization to plan selection and finally execution. This also includes our geospatial search and update subsystems.

Our global team is growing fast, and we are looking for people leaders as part of this expansion.   In North America, we have a presence across the US.  We support office-based as well as remote work, and align projects with convenient work hours for each time-zone.

We have tons of interesting problems to solve with direct impact on users for transactional, time-series, and analytical workloads. As we grow, we need engineering managers to help us structure the organization, improve technical processes, provide career mentorship, guide the product roadmap, and manage projects.

This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely in the United States or Canada. 

Candidate Profile

• Experience building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Experience managing small teams of engineers
• Passionate about running teams, mentorship, and coaching

Position Expectations

• Manage a team of software engineers, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Makes coding contributions to the team’s projects as needed
• Proficient in C++ or a similar programming language
• Provides feedback on the architecture of the system and the design of new features
• Ensures that the team is running smoothly by helping to eliminate technical barriers, coordinating with other teams regarding dependencies, and focusing on the overall happiness of the team
• Contributes to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, future hiring plans, and assignment of projects
• Sets team culture by example
• Estimates the delivery timeline for projects, and communicates well with upper management regarding project execution

Success Measures

• In three months, you will have learned about the team’s roadmap as well as developed relationships with your team and leaders on other teams
• In six months, your team will be capable of running projects on its own. You will be working with product management and senior engineers to refine the team roadmap
• In twelve months, your team has delivered key features for a major release on schedule

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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