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The Database Tools and Replicator Team is working to make backups, migrations, and disaster recovery of MongoDB clusters easy and reliable.

Our main focus ismongosync, a new tool to synchronize two MongoDB clusters. This tool is a top priority for the company, and is used to migrate customers from on-prem MongoDB to MongoDB’s cloud service, MongoDB Atlas. If you’re excited to design and create a high-performance distributed service for syncing databases, this is the team for you!

This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely in North America.

Successful candidates will have the following qualities

• Relevant experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for teams and/or projects
• Bonus: experience working with partially or fully remote teams
• Deep interest in developing the careers of your team members and growing their leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Experience designing, writing, testing, and maintaining databases or distributed systems
• Curiosity, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

Position Expectations

• 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 coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
• Estimate task complexity, report progress, and voice risks for projects executed by the team
• Actively participate in growing the team by hiring

Success Measures

• In three months you’ll have met with all of our team members, and started to learn their interests, strengths and areas of expertise. You’ll have contributed to the development of an ongoing project, as well as fixed a few bugs in existing code
• In six months, we’re relying on you for reviewing code and new feature designs, as well as interviewing potential new hires. You’ll have worked with each engineer reporting to you on a growth plan for them to achieve their career goals
• In twelve months, you’ve led the development of at least one new major feature. 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

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!

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