Senior Manager, Technical Services Engineering
Leads regional teams of support engineers handling MongoDB core database and cloud troubleshooting, performance optimization, architecture advising, and customer escalations. Requires 8+ years managing technical teams, deep database expertise, and operational excellence in scaling distributed support operations.
Responsibilities
- Diagnosing and resolving performance related issues
- Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency and meeting data sovereignty requirements
- Advising on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution
- Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues
- Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team
- Increasing case-deflection numbers by contributing to knowledge-base, distributing knowledge to peers and the general MongoDB community
- Working on specific accounts to build rapport and an in-depth understanding of customer architecture and environment(s) while encouraging expansion of use
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years managing technical support or customer-facing engineering teams, with demonstrated success scaling operations, implementing process improvements, and elevating team performance
- Proven track record in operational excellence: implementing metrics-driven improvements, designing scalable workflows, and optimizing resource allocation across distributed teams
- Strong people development philosophy: history of coaching technical talent from individual contributors to senior engineers, with concrete examples of career progression under your leadership
- Deep technical foundation across multiple database technologies (relational, NoSQL, distributed systems) with hands-on experience diagnosing complex production issues
- Project leadership experience: successfully led cross-functional technical initiatives requiring coordination across engineering, product, and support organizations
- Exposure to AI/ML technologies: understanding of how modern AI systems interact with data platforms, vector databases, or experience supporting AI-driven applications
- Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking—equally comfortable reviewing query execution plans and presenting operational roadmaps to executives
- Experience building and refining KPIs, implementing tooling improvements, and using data to drive team decisions
- Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills with ability to lead-by-example during critical escalations
- Comfort with the full people management lifecycle: hiring, performance management, succession planning, and translating organizational strategy to individual development plans
- Ability to calibrate communication for diverse audiences—from kernel debugging sessions to executive business reviews
Desirable Qualifications
- Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or managing support for highly concurrent distributed systems in production. Scaled SaaS customer facing role experience preferred
- Experience with modern observability, analytics, and automation tools; familiarity with how AI can enhance team operations
- Track record of process innovation that demonstrably improved efficiency metrics (case deflection, resolution time, customer satisfaction)
- Experience developing analytical dashboards using tools like Tableau, or implementing data-driven approaches to operational planning
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