# Senior Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity

**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $168k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS, telemetry, metrics, Analytics, Infrastructure As Code, software supply chain, Observability, Platform Engineering, Developer Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Lead MongoDB's Pipeline team within Developer Productivity to unify CI/CD, release systems, and developer experiences into a reliable, scalable, AI-native software delivery platform. Requires 12+ years engineering experience and 6+ years managing distributed teams with strong platform and product judgment.

## Job Description

## 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.

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