Senior Product Manager, Replication & Storage Engines

Responsibilities

• Own the product direction, roadmap, and execution plan for MongoDB's replication and storage engine layers, ensuring durability, availability, and performance for mission-critical workloads
• Define the long-term roadmap for the storage engine (WiredTiger), balancing architectural investments against near-term escalation pressure
• Define and track measurable service-level objectives (SLOs) for replication lag, failover time, storage engine health and predictability, and customer data durability
• Distill ambiguous customer pain into actionable, scoped priorities for Storage Engines
• Lead high-stakes escalations, coordinating with Support and engineering to resolve issues and reduce churn risk
• Drive improvements to the replication protocol, including elections, consensus, failover, read/write concern semantics, and distributed transaction consistency
• Own product direction for oplog, initial sync, elections, rollback, and replica set configuration
• Maintain clear ownership boundaries with the Storage Execution Product Manager
• Enable Sales, Support, Customer Success, and Product Marketing as the subject-matter expert for replication and storage engine reliability
• Partner with engineering leadership on quarterly planning, technical strategy, and project scoping

Requirements

• Turn messy customer problems into actionable engineering tasks
• Strong technical knowledge of distributed systems, databases, storage, and replication
• Track record of making decisions and shipping in complex technical environments
• Collaborate well with empowered engineering teams through clarity and conviction
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical solutions
• Communicate complex concepts to diverse audiences

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with replication protocols, distributed consensus, storage engines, or core database internals (B-tree engines, write-ahead logging, cache management)
• Managing products with no direct end-user visibility, bridging customer experience and internal systems
• Handling complex customer escalations and turning them into product improvements
• 5+ years in product management or deeply technical customer-facing role