Cool things you’ll do
MongoDB is on a mission to change the way people think about databases. Along the way, our customers encounter questions and issues about how our approach to databases works for their use cases. In Technical Services, it's our job to help these people.
You'll be primarily working alongside a handful of our largest enterprise customers - building a relationship, intimately guiding their use of MongoDB products and services, coordinating the resolution of their complex issues, - answering questions on architecture, performance, recovery, security, and everything in between. You'll be an expert resource on best practices for running MongoDB at scale, whatever that scale may be. You'll be an advocate for customers' needs, - interfacing with our product management and development teams on their behalf.
What you need
You should have 7+ years of database industry experience deploying and managing operational production databases at scale, both on premise and in the cloud. We encourage you to apply even if you’ve never used MongoDB before. We consider all candidates with an eye for those who are self-taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.
It’s crucial for every candidate to check off at least 50% of these boxes:
- Experience building and maintaining complex, mission-critical production database systems
- Monitoring and Alerting
- Backup and Recovery
- Security
- Data modeling and schema design
- Performance tuning
- Solutions architecture
- Understanding of and experience with Cloud architectures, specifically: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Customer management - passionate about being in a customer-facing technical role, showcasing ownership of technical success, and prioritizing customer work
- Stakeholder management - experienced in communicating effectively and in a timely manner with various stakeholders on matters important to them internally and externally, influencing decisions, and calibrating communication style for different audiences
- Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting
- Should have a good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS etc.)
- Storage engineering experience, including NAS, SAN, SSD, multi-pathing, and caching
- Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier, through the database, down to the storage
- Genuine desire to help people
- Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
- Able to read code, with basic coding/scripting ability in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, etc.
- Desire and ability to rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills
- Strong teamwork
- Willingness and ability to get help from team members when required, and the good judgment to know when to seek help
- Ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally to ensure customer needs are being met
Bonus Points
- Experience managing large scale databases (e.g. RDBMS, NoSQL)
- Experience with authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, AD
- Experience using or managing MongoDB
Success Measures
In 3 months, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
In 6 months, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
Within 6-12 months, you will be a part of the Premium Services team within Technical Services and you will be expected to be the primary point of contact for customers and be managing their MongoDB needs independently