Senior Director, Engineering

MongoDB is growing and gaining adoption rapidly across the globe with the most demanding and innovative companies and development teams in enterprise software.

We are seeking a Senior Director, Engineering to join our growing Gurugram Product & Technology team where you will drive the technical vision, execution, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB.

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

Position Expectations

Lead and Manage the Engineering Team – Oversee engineering efforts to design, develop, and scale the new product, ensuring high performance, reliability, and efficiency

Recruit and Build a High-Performance Team – Attract, hire, and mentor top-tier engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence

Define Product and Engineering Strategy – Collaborate with product, research, and engineering leaders to define the long-term vision, roadmap, and architecture of the new platform

Ensure Operational Excellence – Drive best practices for monitoring, reliability, and performance in production

Lead Architecture: Own the architectural vision for the platform, working with Senior engineers on the team, ensuring it runs equally well on public clouds, private cloud environments and on-premise

Cross-functional leadership - Work with product managers, program managers, design & analytics teams and other teams to define, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users and drive platform improvementsRemove roadblocks - Enable the team to operate efficiently by removing technical obstacles, coordinating with other teams on dependencies, and prioritizing the team's overall well-being

Qualifications

15+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing multiple teams and scaling large, distributed systems

Proven experience building and maintaining high sc