Technical Lead Manager
Leads and grows a new engineering team building MongoDB Atlas data federation and archiving capabilities. The role combines people management with hands-on architecture and development of large-scale distributed backend and storage systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of motivated individual contributors who are eager to learn and grow.
- Contribute to the code, design, and architecture of the systems your team develops.
- Work with stakeholders throughout MongoDB to build the roadmap and product offerings.
- Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Collaborate with team members to develop the codebase, best practices, and design principles.
- Foster an inclusive and respectful work environment.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional software development experience.
- At least 3 years of people management experience.
- Experience leading engineering teams that have built and maintained large-scale systems.
- Skill writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language such as Go, Java, or C#.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider technology: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with cloud storage primitives such as S3, GCS, or Azure Blob.
- Hands-on experience with petabyte-scale data infrastructure or storage systems.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Curiosity, collaboration, and motivation.
Success Measures
- In 1 month: Become familiar with foundational system components, existing features, and projects within the Atlas Clusters team.
- In 3 months: Contribute to the design and development of team projects and work on team growth.
- In 6 months: Lead the team toward product and engineering goals, take on medium-sized projects, support customers during escalations, and join the on-call rotation.
Skills
Go, Java, C#, AWS, Azure, GCP, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Distributed Systems, Backend Systems, Data Infrastructure, Cloud Storage, MongoDB
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