Lead, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Define, plan, and execute projects that run, grow, and transform MongoDB's self-service internal developer platform.
• Organize work for a team of platform engineers in coordination with other engineering leads.
• Mentor engineers and lead by example.
• Investigate development workflow gaps and limitations with engineering teams across MongoDB; identify infrastructure and platform requirements.
• Write and review automation, configuration management, and application code.
• Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services.
• Own and operate the internal development platform.
• Collaborate with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Requirements

• 2+ years managing and mentoring a team of 3+ engineers.
• 5+ years owning the design and implementation of large software or infrastructure projects.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud providers; AWS strongly preferred.
• Strong backend programming background; fluency in Go strongly preferred, with deep experience in another compiled or strongly typed backend language acceptable.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters.
• Practical experience defining and operating against SLI/SLOs.
• Strong experience with observability tooling, including metrics, logging, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills.
• Familiarity with OAuth and OIDC authentication protocols.
• Familiarity with web services and/or Kubernetes controller development.
• Strong experience using CI/CD workflows to deploy production services.
• Experience working with AI coding agents and building high-quality context for high-quality outputs.
• Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and collaborative.

Technologies

• Go
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Crossplane
• Terraform
• Helm
• Drone
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry

Success Measures

• Within three months, become familiar with the teams and systems, take on direct reports, and participate in high-level scoping and roadmapping.
• Within six months, investigate, scope, and document medium- to large-sized platform projects and coordinate implementation with direct reports.
• Within a year, deliver measurable results based on the goals of Infrastructure Engineering, stakeholder needs, and MongoDB objectives.

Benefits

• Supportive and enriching culture.
• Employee affinity groups.
• Fertility assistance.
• Generous parental leave policy.