Lead, Engineering

MongoDB is seeking a Lead Engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB.

The Atlas Clusters Security team creates a first-in-class cloud database security experience for our wide range of sophisticated customers. We are a product engineering team that develops and maintains Atlas features and services for cluster networking, data encryption, database authentication, and customer-facing security controls—enabling countless mission‑critical applications across the world.

We are forming a new Atlas Clusters Security team in the Dublin area. The Lead Engineer who fills this position will be pivotal in growing that team. This is a product engineering leadership role.

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

What you’ll do

Manage a team of motivated individual contributors who are eager to learn and grow

Contribute to the code, design, and architecture of the systems your team develops

Work with stakeholders throughout MongoDB to build our roadmap and product offerings

Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues

Foster an inclusive and respectful work environment according to MongoDB's Core Values

We’re looking for someone who

Has at least 6 years of professional software development experience

Has at least 3 years of people management experience

Has led engineering teams that have built and maintained large scale systems

Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Go, Java, C#, C++, etc.) Java or Go experience is a plus

Has experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Is excited to build customer‑facing security features in Atlas and to partner with security experts; prior hands‑on security experience (e.g., authentication/authorization, network access controls, encryption) is a plus

Is eager to solve tough problems

Has excellent communication skills

Is curious, collaborative, and motivated

Success Measures

In 1 month, you'll be familiar with the foundational parts of the system, the existing features, and projects within the Atlas Clusters Security team

In 3 months, you will be contributing to design and development of your team’s projects and working on your team’s growth

In 6 months, you and your team will have ramped enough to take on medium sized projects and you will be leading your team towards its product and engineering 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 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 affinit