# Senior Product Manager, Replication & Storage Engines
**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Salary:** $118K-$231K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** MongoDB, Wiredtiger, Replication Protocols, Distributed Consensus, Storage Engines, SLOs, Oplog, Failover, Distributed Systems, Databases
**Posted:** 2026-04-27
> Owns product strategy, roadmap, and execution for MongoDB's replication and storage engines (WiredTiger), defining SLOs, handling customer escalations, and driving improvements in durability, availability, and performance for mission-critical workloads. Requires strong technical knowledge of distributed systems and databases, plus 5+ years in PM or technical customer-facing roles.
## Job Description
## 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
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