Lead Engineer, Server Programmability

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The Server Programmability (SP) Team’s mission is to create and maintain the foundational layers of the Server codebase. These layers help other developers of the codebase be successful. As a result of the SP team’s work, other developers can easily build MongoDB as a piece of correct, reliable, performant, idiomatic, modular, and maintainable software.

The SP team doesn’t ship features to end users. Their customers are the previously mentioned other  developers of the Server codebase. Almost all of the code the SP team writes still ships in production binaries as building blocks and primitives for other end-user facing features. The SP team decides on cross-codebase guidelines and norms The team works to uphold and enforce guidelines as early in the development process as possible. The SP team is a home for C++ expertise, open at all times to consulting with other engineers on the best way to build their features. The team aims to help build the foundational building blocks that require unusually deep C++ expertise or are common to multiple components.

Note: This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely from anywhere in North America.

Position Expectations

• Manage a team of ~7 individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Spend 75% of your time doing management, and 25% of your time on individual contributions
• Foster a positive and effective team culture
• Balance your time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
• Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule
• Maintain expertise on state of the art software technologies and best practices
• Develop a roadmap of high-impact improvements to the programming model of the MongoDB Server
• Measure the impact of the programmability improvements we make to iterate on the team's roadmap
• Effectively manage the roll out and success of projects built by the SP team
• Identify, design, implement, test, and support new components that make development easier within a large feature-rich C++ codebase
• Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure and robust industrial-strength software
• Note: while C++ experience is desirable, it is not necessary. We are also looking for:
  • Experience managing teams building low-level libraries and components within a larger codebase
  • Experience managing a team responsible for increasing the velocity of fellow engineers is equally valuable

Success Measures

In three months:

• You've met with all of your team members and are starting to learn their interests, strengths, and areas for development
• You’ll have contributed to a project slated for the next major version of the MongoDB server, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series

In six months:

• We'll be relying on you for code reviews and reviewing the designs for new features
• You have worked with each team member to develop a growth plan tailored to their career goals
• You understand the pain points involved in writing code in the MongoDB Server and have made contributions to the SP roadmap

In twelve months

• You've taken ownership over developing and measuring success of the team's roadmap on improving engineering velocity across the Server
• You have established your role as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally go to you for guidance
• You've increased the impact and skills of your team members in tangible ways
• You've contributed technically in design, code, and review to multiple projects

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