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