Engineering Manager, Atlas Clusters Modernization

Polluxa, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB in Dublin is seeking an Engineering Manager to join the Atlas Clusters Modernization team. You will lead a motivated group of engineers, mentor career growth, and shape the roadmap for scalable backend services powering Atlas clusters in cloud environments.

Based in Dublin with a hybrid work model, you will collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams, own technical direction, and ensure reliability, performance, and security at scale, while maintaining MongoDB's core

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience leading teams responsible for large-scale backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and drive career growth.
• Contribute to code, design, and architecture of systems.
• Collaborate to build roadmaps and product offerings.
• Manage on-call rotation and issue resolution.
• Foster inclusive, respectful team culture.

Skills

People management

Distributed backend systems

Go/Java/C#

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Communication skills

Tools

Go

Java

C#

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

MongoDB is seeking an Engineering Manager to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database-as-a-service offering and fastest growing product.

Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB.

The Atlas Clusters Modernization team is a product engineering team that builds foundational services and features for MongoDB Atlas that allow Atlas Clusters to be provisioned, updated, and maintained. We enable new cluster topologies, incorporate new cloud provider capabilities as they become available, roll out hardware and operating system upgrades, and expand Atlas into new cloud provider regions. This work sits at the core of Atlas and directly impacts how customers run their workloads in the cloud.

We are forming a new Atlas Clusters Modernization team in the Dublin area. The Engineering Manager who fills this position will be pivotal in growing that team. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin and would like a hybrid working model.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of motivated individual contributors who are eager to learn and grow
• Contribute to the code, design, and architecture of the systems your team develops
• Work with stakeholders throughout MongoDB to build our roadmap and product offerings
• Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues and become part of our on-call rotation
• Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles
• Foster an inclusive and respectful work environment according to MongoDB's Core Values

We're looking for someone who

• Has at least 6 years of professional software development experience
• Has at least 3 years of people management experience
• Has led engineering teams that have built and maintained large scale systems
• Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Go, Java, C#, etc.)
• Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Is eager to solve tough problems
• Has excellent communication skills
• Is curious, collaborative, and motivated

Success Measures

• In 1 month, you'll be familiar with the foundational parts of the system, the existing features, and projects within the Atlas Clusters team
• In 3 months, you will be contributing to design and development of your team’s projects and working on your team’s growth
• In 6 months, you and your team will have ramped enough to take on medium sized projects and you will be leadin