Come join and lead the Server Ingress Security team, where we are rearchitecting MongoDB Server’s ingress networking to make MongoDB clusters even more secure. This new team is building the Atlas Network Protection layer, a set of performant, security-critical services that harden MongoDB's pre-authentication attack surface and provides the ability to respond rapidly to emergent threats. We are looking for a talented Lead Engineer to join the team and be founding members, where you will play a crucial role in our multi-year roadmap.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration, and lives MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. If you want to lead a fast-growing team that applies security and systems engineering fundamentals to protect a popular database at scale, join us!

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Candidate Profile

• 3+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers, including hiring, performance and growth management, compensation planning, and mentoring
• You have 8+ years of experience building production-quality systems software with large backend/compiled codebases, ideally in Rust.
• Bonus points for experience with performance profiling, network protocols, TLS, and connection management
• You have strong technical judgment that you use to effectively guide engineering decisions in security-sensitive or networking-adjacent domains
• You put the customer first and don't hesitate to cross team boundaries in search of the right solution
• Solid experience in designing, writing, testing, maintaining, and operating mission-critical software systems
• Bonus points Professional or advanced academic expertise in the domains of security or networking
• You enjoy coaching, career development, and creating growth opportunities to help your team reach their full potential
• You care about building a diverse, inclusive environment where engineers can do their best work
• Regardless of prior experience, you are willing, able, and excited to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science, software engineering, and leadership

Position Expectations

• Lead a team of engineers, managing all aspects of people management including hiring, growth, compensation, and performance management
• Be directly responsible for the results your team delivers
• Lead the design, implementation, and operation production-ready security services in Rust, with a focus on security, correctness, performance, and operational excellence
• Own the definition and execution of the team's 12-month roadmap for the Atlas Network Protection layer
• Work with Product Management, Program Management, and Engineering leadership to specify, prioritize, and deliver new features
• Handle (or lead the effort to handle) time-sensitive security incidents and customer escalations
• Estimate task complexity, communicate delivery timelines, and manage risks for projects executed by the team
• Ensure the team is running smoothly by eliminating technical barriers, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and focusing on the overall health and happiness of the team
• Contribute to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, future hiring plans, and assignment of projects

Success Measures

• In the first month: Understand the high-level architecture of the Atlas Network Protection layer, the team's current projects, and the required day-to-day processes. Begin developing relationships with key stakeholders across Server, Atlas, and Product Security
• In three months: Take over full management of the team and begin building trust with your reports. Assume responsibility for day-to-day team operations. Be involved in reviewing designs for new features and helping the team navigate technical challenges. Hire engineers for the team as needed
• In six months: Establish yourself as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally come to you for guidance. Take over full ownership of Ingress Security’s software components. Lead the planning and execution of major features supporting the team’s major annual goals
• In twelve months: Perform a full annual cycle of performance and growth conversations with your team members. Contribute to the long-term vision for the Ingress Security stack and develop a plan to achieve that vision. Increase the capability and velocity of the team in measurable ways

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 1273383870

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Migration Services team, which owns Atlas Live Migration. This diverse group of engineers is responsible for architecting, deploying and managing fully automated, low-downtime data migration services at cloud scale. Our tooling is built directly into our cutting edge, multi-cloud database service, MongoDB Atlas, and is critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will design and build new solutions to address our scalability, performance, and usability challenges.

This role can be based out of our Dublin office or remotely in Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product, design, and engineers across the organization to collectively build features that our customers love
• Stay up to date on the latest advancements in Cloud computing and software development to bring them into our product
• Solve difficult technical problems in a distributed environment
• Own the planning and delivery of major features from ideation through design and implementation
• Define your top priorities and focuses, then communicate and execute against them
• Mentor and contribute to the growth of team members

Candidate Profile

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, primarily focused on backend systems
• Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g. React, TypeScript, Enzyme)
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Led the launch of new features and maintained them in production
• Curious, collaborative, empathetic and intellectually honest
• Motivated to solve tough problems and continually expand their knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Success Measures

• In three months, you are developing a deep understanding of MongoDB and our migration tooling. You will have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
• In six months, you are reviewing new feature designs, with an active role in the design and implementation of a major project, while leading development of smaller performance enhancements
• In twelve months, you are leading the design and development of major new features, and will be mentoring new engineers. You’ll have a strong familiarity with the products the team owns and can work across the codebase

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 4263289669

Join the MongoDB Networking & Observability team and help build the core of a distributed database ! Our team focuses on creating and enhancing components which facilitate communication between distributed processes and make these processes, and their communication, easily observable. Networking Observability’s responsibilities include improving MongoDB networking, improving the efficiency of resource utilization, and building low-overhead observability features.

Our team includes engineers located in New York City and fully remote engineers. We operate close to the bottom of the stack, and have a lot of influence over the availability, performance, and robustness of our open source database as well as the development efficiency of the engineering team overall. Recently we’ve worked on POCs and performance tests for new architectural directions in our networking stack, and are integrating OpenTelemetry to accelerate investigation of issues and integrate with a wider ecosystem of observability tooling.

Are you excited to help the MongoDB engineering team build a better database? We are! Join us today, and we can build a faster, more reliable, exceptionally observable, database system together.

Note: This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.

Candidate Profile

• 3+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Passionate about delivering and deploying a product with cross-team stakeholders
• Solid computer science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Hands-on experience with building production-level code. Experience in C++ is required
• Interest in furthering their knowledge of networking, observability and how computer architecture and internals impact the availability
• Solid verbal and written communication skills and highly motivated to collaborate with colleagues

Position Expectations

• Understand and improve the current functionality of the MongoDB networking and observability codebase
• Lead medium sized projects related to our networking code or observability frameworks from technical design to delivery
• Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery)
• Own our leadership principles, and exemplify them in your work
• Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career

Success Measures

• In one month, you'll have fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest release series
• In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version
• In six months, you’ll have taken on primary code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
• In twelve months, you’re making significant contributions to the development of a new major features

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 1273376223

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Server Security team. The Server Security team is a development-focused group within MongoDB's core engineering organization. Operating "close to the bottom of the stack," the team builds features that enable database users to secure their data globally. You will work on critical components including:

• Cryptography: Queryable Encryption, at-rest data encryption, and fundamental cryptographic principles.
• Identity & Access: Authentication and authorization systems, TLS, and X.509 certificate management
• Network Security: High-performance, low-latency networking protocols (PKI, Hashing, CRLs)
• System Integrity: Resilience, observability, and compliance assurance within a large-scale distributed database

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core features of a popular database, join us! Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, system architects, and database operators.

The role

As a Senior Engineer, you will apply distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core security features. You will be a leader in improving MongoDB's security posture by owning features and leading investigations into complex areas of the codebase. What you’ll do:

• Build and test new security features in a large, feature-rich C++ codebase
• Work across engineering, cloud services, and support teams to coordinate feature rollouts and changes
• Stand for code quality and security best practices, assisting fellow engineers in writing well-reasoned, secure code
• Use strong diagnostic intuition to solve thorny technical issues related to distributed systems, concurrency, and OS internals

This role can be remote or hybrid anywhere in the USA or Canada. We will prioritize candidates who are already located in one of these countries.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a highly technical engineer who thrives on the theory and practice of large-scale distributed system design.

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Proficiency in a compiled language (C++, Rust, Go, Java, or similar). Technical interviews will be conducted in a compiled language of your choice
• Ability to reason about how specific design choices impact a distributed system like MongoDB
• Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Excellent communication skills to synthesize complex technical implications for diverse stakeholders

Success Measures

• In your first month, you’ll understand the high-level architecture of MongoDB, dive into the details of your team’s components, and resolve a few bugs
• In the first three months, you’ll contribute to the development of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in design reviews for new features
• In the first six months, you’ll lead the development of a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 1273412835

Come join the Server Ingress Security team, where we are rearchitecting MongoDB Server’s ingress networking to make MongoDB clusters even more secure. This new team is building the Atlas Network Protection layer, a set of performant, security-critical services that harden MongoDB's pre-authentication attack surface and provides the ability to respond rapidly to emergent threats. We are looking for talented Staff Engineers to join the team and be founding members, where you will play a crucial role in our multi-year roadmap.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to be a key technical leader on a collaborative team that applies security and systems engineering fundamentals to protect a popular database at scale, join us!

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Candidate Profile

• 10+ years of experience building production-quality systems software with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
• Experience with large backend/compiled codebases and performance-sensitive software, preferably in Rust 
• Bonus points for experience working hands-on in security-sensitive or networking-adjacent domains
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling. Bonus points for:
• Understanding of network protocols, TLS, and connection lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with security concepts such as attack surface reduction, input validation, memory safety, and defense-in-depth architectures.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills for communicating to a wide variety of audiences ranging from junior engineers to executive stakeholder
• Strong mentorship skills, and excitement about leveling up your peers and teammates through coaching, feedback, and enablement
• Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture. Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability, security-critical systems
• Passion for learning new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

Position Expectations

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Ingress Security, in collaboration with stakeholders across Server, Atlas, SRE, and Product Security
• Own the definition, planning, and execution of technical plans to deliver solutions to ambiguous, high-impact security and networking problems
• Design, implement, and operate production-ready security services in Rust, with a focus on security, correctness, performance, and operational excellence
• Collaborate with Engineering leadership and other Product & Technology teams on roadmaps to improve the security posture of MongoDB's ingress stack
• Advise across the team and organization on engineering complexity, risk, and inter-project dependencies
• Handle time-sensitive escalations and production incidents that require expert support from Ingress Security
• Diagnose test failures, identify bugs, performance regressions, and other defects in existing code, and fix them
• Interview candidates for software engineering positions, and work with Engineering leadership to cultivate the team's talent bench for long-term growth and success
• Develop and maintain expertise on relevant cutting-edge research in systems security, network security, and memory-safe systems programming from industry and academia

Success Measures

• In the first month: Understand the high-level architecture of the Atlas Network Protection layer, set up your development environment, and resolve a few bugs
• In three months: Contribute substantially to the Rust development of a current project or milestone, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in reviewing designs for new features
• In six months: Independently lead the development of major a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team
• In twelve months: Drive the Planning, Design, and Execution of major improvements to our security, availability, performance, or operational capabilities

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter. 

REQ ID: 1273383343

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Server Security team. The Server Security team is a development-focused group within MongoDB's core engineering organization. Operating "close to the bottom of the stack," the team builds features that enable database users to secure their data globally. You will work on critical components including:

• Cryptography: Queryable Encryption, at-rest data encryption, and fundamental cryptographic principles.
• Identity & Access: Authentication and authorization systems, TLS, and X.509 certificate management
• Network Security: High-performance, low-latency networking protocols (PKI, Hashing, CRLs)
• System Integrity: Resilience, observability, and compliance assurance within a large-scale distributed database

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core features of a popular database, join us! Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, system architects, and database operators.

The role

As a Senior Engineer, you will apply distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core security features. You will be a leader in improving MongoDB's security posture by owning features and leading investigations into complex areas of the codebase. What you’ll do:

• Build and test new security features in a large, feature-rich C++ codebase
• Work across engineering, cloud services, and support teams to coordinate feature rollouts and changes
• Stand for code quality and security best practices, assisting fellow engineers in writing well-reasoned, secure code
• Use strong diagnostic intuition to solve thorny technical issues related to distributed systems, concurrency, and OS internals

This role can be remote or hybrid anywhere in the USA or Canada. We will prioritize candidates who are already located in one of these countries.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a highly technical engineer who thrives on the theory and practice of large-scale distributed system design.

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems
• Proficiency in a compiled language (C++, Rust, Go, Java, or similar). Technical interviews will be conducted in a compiled language of your choice
• Ability to reason about how specific design choices impact a distributed system like MongoDB
• Understands modern computer architecture and internals to the degree that they can reason about how specific design choices plays out in a system like MongoDB
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Excellent communication skills to synthesize complex technical implications for diverse stakeholders

Success Measures

• In your first month, you’ll understand the high-level architecture of MongoDB, dive into the details of your team’s components, and resolve a few bugs
• In the first three months, you’ll contribute to the development of a project slated for the next release of MongoDB, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in design reviews for new features
• In the first six months, you’ll lead the development of a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req ID: 1273412835

Come join the Server Ingress Security team, where we are rearchitecting MongoDB Server’s ingress networking to make MongoDB clusters even more secure. This new team is building the Atlas Network Protection layer, a set of performant, security-critical services that harden MongoDB's pre-authentication attack surface and provides the ability to respond rapidly to emergent threats. We are looking for talented Senior Engineers to join the team and be founding members, where you will play a crucial role in our multi-year roadmap.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies security and systems engineering fundamentals to protect a popular database at scale, join us!

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Candidate Profile

• 5+ years of experience building production-quality systems software
• Experience with large backend/compiled codebases and performance-sensitive software, preferably in Rust
• Bonus points for experience working hands-on in security-sensitive or networking-adjacent domains
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling. Bonus points for:
• Understanding of network protocols, TLS, and connection lifecycle management
• Familiarity with security concepts such as attack surface reduction, input validation, memory safety, and defense-in-depth architectures
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues
• Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture. Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability, security-critical systems

Position Expectations

• Design, implement, and operate production-ready security services in Rust, with a focus on security, correctness, performance, and operational excellence
• Develop ingress networking and security solutions that ensure the security, availability, and performance of a database service
• Diagnose test failures and performance regressions, and implement fixes
• Lead development and project management for features and initiatives within the Ingress Security domain
• Collaborate across Server, Atlas, Drivers, SRE, and Product Security teams to ensure the Atlas Network Protection layer integrates seamlessly with the broader MongoDB ecosystem
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define the team's roadmap

Success Measures

• In the first month: Understand the high-level architecture of the Atlas Network Protection layer, set up your development environment, and resolve a few bugs
• In three months: Contribute substantially to the Rust development of a current project or milestone, take on code review responsibilities, and participate in reviewing designs for new features
• In six months: Independently lead the development of a new feature and help mentor new engineers on the team

In twelve months: Drive significant improvements to the security, performance, or operational capabilities of the Ingress Security stack, and contribute to the long-term technical roadmap of the team

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 1273370603

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team. We are working to make the migration and recovery of MongoDB clusters easy, fast, and reliable. Data movement is a key priority for MongoDB and we use our services and tools to migrate customers from on-prem MongoDB to MongoDB's cloud service, MongoDB Atlas. This team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration services such as the Atlas Live Migration service, or our standalone offering, mongosync. As a Lead Engineer you will grow and lead a team in Ireland within Cluster to Cluster Synchronization. If you're excited to design and create a high-performance distributed service for syncing databases, this is the team for you!

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Responsibilities

• Grow and lead the Cluster to Cluster Migration Services team
• Coach engineers with various levels of experience to help them deliver successfully and grow professionally
• Work with product managers, program managers, and other engineering teams to specify, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users
• Develop, maintain, and apply a deep technical understanding of mongosync and relevant details of sharding and replication in MongoDB
• Balance your time between leading your team, mentorship, product planning and architectural design
• Estimate task complexity, report progress, and voice risks for projects executed by the team
• Actively participate in growing the team by hiring

Candidate Profile

• 2+ years of experience managing a team of 3+ engineers and providing technical leadership
• 5+ years of professional experience developing software in compiled languages (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.)
• Experience designing, writing, testing, and maintaining databases or distributed systems
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for teams and/or projects
• Deep interest in developing the careers of your team members and growing their leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Curiosity, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

Success Measures

• In three months, you have met with all of our team members and started to learn their interests, strengths and areas of expertise. You have fully onboarded to our codebase and will have contributed to the development of an ongoing project. You have started tracking and reporting your team's progress to stakeholders. You have started getting involved with planning the product roadmap
• In six months, we're relying on you for reviewing code and new feature designs, as well as interviewing potential new hires. You have worked with each engineer reporting to you on a growth plan for them to achieve their career goals. Your team has achieved several key milestones towards delivering a fully scalable and performant verification system
• In twelve months, you have led the team towards achieving their objectives for 2026. You have a clear understanding of the longer term roadmap and objectives and how to accomplish them with your team. You have established your role as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally go to you for guidance. You are comfortable collaborating across the organization to plan projects and achieve your team's goals

About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 4263299147