Engineering Manager, C2C

Polluxa, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. in Dublin is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team, building scalable migration services for MongoDB Atlas migrations and mongosync-based workflows.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product and program managers, and balance architecture with delivery in a hybrid Dublin-based environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to deliver low-downtime data migration, with a focus on growth and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading a team of 3+ engineers.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with distributed systems and databases.
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Grow and lead the Cluster to Cluster Migration Services team
• Coach engineers and enable growth
• Collaborate with product, program, and engineering teams to plan and deliver features
• Develop and maintain deep technical understanding of mongosync and MongoDB sharding/replication
• Balance leadership, mentorship, product planning, and architecture
• Estimate task complexity, report progress, and communicate risks
• Participate in hiring to grow the team

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Software development

Technical communication

Hiring & mentorship

Tools

mongosync

MongoDB Atlas

Sharding

Job description

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team. We are working to make the migration and recovery of MongoDB clusters easy, fast, and reliable. Data movement is a key priority for MongoDB and we use our services and tools to migrate customers from on-prem MongoDB to MongoDB's cloud service, MongoDB Atlas. This team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration services such as the Atlas Live Migration service, or our standalone offering, mongosync . As an Engineering Manager you will grow and lead a team in Ireland within Cluster to Cluster Synchronization. If you're excited to design and create a high-performance distributed service for syncing databases, this is the team for you!

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Responsibilities

• Grow and lead the Cluster to Cluster Migration Services team
• 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 leading your team, mentorship, product planning and architectural design
• Estimate task complexity, report progress, and voice risks for projects executed by the team
• Actively participate in growing the team by hiring

Candidate Profile

• 2+ years of experience managing a team of 3+ engineers and providing technical leadership
• 5+ years of professional experience developing software in compiled languages (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.)
• Experience designing, writing, testing, and maintaining databases or distributed systems
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for teams and/or projects
• Deep interest in developing the careers of your team members and growing their leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
• Curiosity, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering

Success Measures

• In three months, you have met with all of our team members and started to learn their interests, strengths and areas of expertise. You have fully onboarded to our codebase and will have contributed to the development of an ongoing project. You have started tracking and reporting your team's progress to stakeholders. You have started getting involved with planning the product roadmap
• In six months, we're relying on you for reviewing code and new feature designs, as well as interviewing potential new hires. You hav