Director, Engineering

As the Director of Engineering for the MongoDB Query Optimization team, you will lead the development of a world-class, open-source, general-purpose query engine designed for the document model. You will be responsible for managing a team of engineering managers and staff-level engineers, making deeply technical decisions, and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in a management position
• Proven success building, mentoring, and growing strong geographically-distributed software engineering teams
• High emotional intelligence and a commitment to building a culturally diverse and inclusive organization
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Extensive experience collaborating across organization boundaries
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to make complex project decisions quickly
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing, and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
• At least 10 years of experience in programming and system design with a strong grip on the foundational material of computer science
• Professional or advanced academic expertise in the domains of query planning, optimization, and execution along with a deep understanding of systems programming, many-core architectures, and distributed data processing

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Generous parental leave policy
• Fertility assistance
• Employee affinity groups
• Compassionate leave policy