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Senior Manager, Technical Services Engineering

140k – 275kAustin, TXNew York, NYPalo Alto, CAEngineering ManagementHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
MongoDBNoSQLRelational DatabasesDistributed SystemsAI/MLObservabilityAutomationTableauKPIsTroubleshooting
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