MongoDB powers mission‑critical workloads for customers who expect their data to be durable, highly available, and fast to access. The Storage Execution team builds the core infrastructure that makes those guarantees real.
We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to manage the largely New York-based Storage Execution team. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is obsessed with customer success, takes the responsibility of durably storing customer data seriously, and has strong empathy for both their team and our users.
This role can be based remotely in Ontario, Canada.
About the Storage Execution teamThe Storage Execution team sits at the heart of MongoDB’s Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) team. We own the core transactional read/write path on each node, across both today’s storage engine and a next‑generation cloud-native storage architecture. Our work determines how correct and performant MongoDB is for customers running mission-critical production workloads.
The team’s responsibilities include:
- Defining and maintaining the internal collection and index APIs used by Replication, Query and Catalog modules, and commands for local reads and writes, plus the transaction and durability primitives that govern visibility, conflict resolution and crash recovery
- Integrating the next generation of MongoDB’s storage architecture into the server in a way that is predictable for other teams, scales with cloud elasticity, and preserves the performance and safety of the classic configuration
- Improving transaction processing speed and semantics of both single shard and cross-shard transactions
- Owning index builds and schema‑level storage operations (build/rebuild, cleanup, resumability) and ensuring they behave well for large, highly available clusters running write-heavy workloads
- Building validation, diagnostics, and storage‑focused test infrastructure to catch durability issues early and keep the system trustworthy at scale
- Partnering with neighboring teams on flow control, prioritization and load-shedding to stay within resource limits, protecting durability and availability at the cluster level without starving critical operations
- Lead, grow and manage a New York–based team of 8 to 10 engineers; ensure clear expectations, high standards, and healthy, sustainable execution
- Own the team’s roadmap across durability, availability, performance, and developer productivity, in partnership with OLTP leadership and Product Management
- Manage customer escalations involving storage behavior and durability; work directly with Support, Atlas, and other server teams to reproduce, root‑cause, and resolve issues
- Drive process and tooling improvements that raise engineering velocity and code quality (e.g., ownership, review expectations, customer escalation and build failure practices)
- Partner closely with Replication, Query, Sharding, Catalog & Routing, Storage Engines, and Atlas teams on cross‑team features such as the new storage architecture, availability improvements, and workload management
- Represent Storage Execution in planning, staffing, and calibration; make thoughtful tradeoffs between near‑term deliverables, longer‑term availability gaps, and platform investments
- 8+ years building, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent systems software (databases, storage engines, filesystems, or similar)
- 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and coaching across a range of levels
- Willing to work East Coast hours
- Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically-typed language such as C++, Rust, or Go; prior C++ and systems programming experience is a plus
- Deep understanding of durability, availability, and performance tradeoffs in distributed systems; experience with replication, consensus, storage engines, or transactional systems is highly desirable
- Demonstrated customer obsession: direct experience working with demanding customers (or customer support / cloud teams) on complex incidents and turning them into clear, outcome‑oriented recommendations
- Proven ability to develop people: mentoring and promoting engineers, managing underperformance directly, and building high‑engagement teams with low regretted attrition
- Comfortable leading multi‑quarter initiatives with multiple stakeholders and using written documents to align teams on design, scope, and tradeoffs
In three months, you have:
- Built strong relationships with your team and key partner teams
- Taken over team ceremonies, short‑term planning, and on‑call responsibilities
- Co‑led at least one active project and shipped one concrete process improvement
In six to twelve months, you have:
- Led at least one cross‑team initiative in availability, durability, or developer velocity
- Delivered a multi‑quarter project with clear impact on durability/availability or team throughput
- Built a bench of engineers ready for increased scope and, over time, leadership roles
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform 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 data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
Req ID: 3273532708
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MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.
Skills Required
- 8+ years building, debugging, and tuning distributed or highly concurrent systems software
- 2+ years directly managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and coaching
- Willingness to work East Coast hours
- Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically typed language such as C++, Rust, or Go
- Deep understanding of durability, availability, and performance tradeoffs in distributed systems
- Experience with replication, consensus, storage engines, or transactional systems
- Prior C++ and systems programming experience
- Direct experience working with demanding customers or customer support/cloud teams on complex incidents
- Proven ability to mentor and promote engineers, manage underperformance, and build high-engagement teams
- Ability to lead multi-quarter initiatives with multiple stakeholders and use written documents to align teams
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is outlined at 20 weeks fully paid and gender‑neutral (with a one‑year tenure requirement), with return‑to‑work flexibility noted. Family‑building support includes 90% reimbursement up to $50,000 for fertility, adoption, or surrogacy, plus backup child/elder care services.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (Cigna and Kaiser HMO in CA) are offered, with low or no employee‑only payroll deductions on certain plans and preventive care covered at 100%. Separate dental (Cigna) and vision (EyeMed) benefits are also provided.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental‑health resources include Spring Health (up to 10 therapy video visits/year), Headspace for employees and dependents, an EAP, and a Mental Health First Aider program. Day‑to‑day perks and flexibility include flexible PTO, 11 U.S. holidays, and company‑paid in‑office lunches up to three days per week under the hybrid model.
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