Senior Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, execution, and operating model for MongoDB’s end-to-end software delivery pipeline across continuous integration and release enablement functions.
• Set portfolio priorities and resource allocation in partnership with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing urgent delivery needs with long-term platform investments.
• Improve the experience of internal engineering users while also raising the bar on reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Establish and evolve mechanisms for measuring developer productivity, system health, and business impact across the pipeline portfolio.
• Build a healthy, high-performing organization by growing managers, strengthening succession depth, and creating clarity around expectations, accountability, and career development.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for critical trade-offs and cross-functional issues, ensuring decisions are aligned to company priorities and understood in terms of their downstream consequences.

Requirements

• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• 6+ years of experience managing multiple teams and building a strong bench of leaders in a geographically distributed organization with a track-record of success in hiring, performance management, and fostering a team growth mindset.
• Track record of scaling large software systems used by software engineers, ideally including CI/CD, release, or other developer infrastructure platforms with large scale workloads.
• Strong judgment across both developer-facing product experience and underlying platform architecture, including user workflows, system reliability, operational insight, and service scalability.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Understand how to use telemetry, metrics, and analytics to improve developer productivity and operational health.
• Experience or strong familiarity with software supply chain and release concerns, including reliability, security, and operational rigor.
• Ability to define strategy and drive execution in ambiguous environments with broad organizational impact, acting as a trusted escalation point for complex technical and organizational trade-offs.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering.
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS.
• Leads a large, strategic organization with a positive and inclusive culture while setting a high bar for accountability and execution.
• Demonstrates mastery of both verbal and written communication to navigate a global organizational structure that utilizes a mix of synchronous and asynchronous engagement.
• Collaborates effectively with leadership and partner teams to coordinate priorities, improve processes, and strengthen MongoDB’s software development ecosystem.
• Makes sound decisions on planning, staffing, and organizational structure, and knows when to optimize locally versus for the broader business.
• Acts like an owner for MongoDB’s broader engineering success, not just the direct organization they lead.