Manager, Technical Services Engineering

MongoDB; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave (20 weeks)

Fertility & adoption assistance

Mental health counseling

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a transformational leader to head a regional team of Support Engineers within Technical Services. This role is based in Palo Alto and requires working in the office three or more days a week.

You will guide complex customer escalations, mentor engineers, and partner with sales and engineering to ensure success at scale. The ideal candidate has 5+ years leading technical support teams, exceptional people management, and a calm, data-driven approach to problem solving.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading a technical support team or organization with experience handling high-profile escalations.
• Strong people management skills focused on customer experience and technical excellence.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure and solve problems in real time.
• Lead-by-example with diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.
• Set clear expectations for skill development and daily operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Becoming well-versed in MongoDB and Atlas platforms.
• Balance technical rigor with customer empathy under pressure to resolve issues.
• Advise on design and architecture including global data distribution and replication for high availability.
• Educate on roadmap features and advocate for customer needs to drive resolution.
• Collaborate with peer teams for seamless regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues.
• Grow skills through training and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Increase case-deflection by contributing to knowledge bases and peer education.
• Engage with named accounts to understand architecture and encourage expansion.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Escalation management

Diagnostic skills

Communication

Customer advocacy

Recruitment involvement

Problem solving

Job description

Technical Services has over 500 team members in offices spanning the entire globe. The team operates out of 16 locations including offices in New York City, Toronto, Austin, Palo Alto, Vancouver, Sydney, Gurgaon (India), Tel Aviv, and Dublin. Outstanding customer satisfaction is achieved utilizing a 24x7x365 ‘follow-the-sun’ support model with regional teams covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.

We have an incredible opportunity for a transformational individual to join the MongoDB Technical Services organization, leading a regional team of MongoDB Support Engineers. Individuals in this team are experts in addressing issues related to MongoDB’s ‘core’ database and the Atlas cloud managed platform that enable successful customer implementations at scale.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Palo Alto as this role will require working in office 3 or more days a week.

Candidate Profile

Required

• A minimum of five (5) years practical experience running a technical support team or organization, including experience coordinating high profile customer escalations, collaborating with other internal engineering departments, and working closely with sales teams
• Strong people management skills with a track record of building and managing individuals with a strong focus on customer experience and technical excellence
• Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
• Ability to lead-by-example with strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
• Adept at setting clear expectations for individuals to help strengthen specific skills and provide guidance for career development as well as serving the daily interrupt driven needs of a busy technical support organization
• Ability to understand customer business drivers and use cases
• A customer advocate who can mitigate and drive issues as appropriate
• Is comfortable engaging in hiring decisions, performance management, translating company and the organization’s goals down to team and individual levels
• Ability to articulate and calibrate communication style based on audience, from highly technical to executive level

Desirable

• Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or a similar highly concurrent distributed system used in production architectures
• Born-in-the-cloud SaaS experience. IaaS or PaaS are highly desirable
• Experience with modern observability, analytics, and automation tools
• Experience developing KPI’s viewable in management dashboards and scorecards using analytical tools like Tableau
• Exposure to AI/ML technologies: understanding of how modern AI systems interact with data platforms, vector databases, or experience supporting AI-driven applications

Success Measures

Within 30 days

• Complete MongoDB’s new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products
• Be able to navigate and articulate our core products at a beginner level
• Build initial rapport with the team and gain their trust

Within 60 days

• Understand our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes
• Have formed relationships with escalation managers, CSMs, sales, field and engineering stakeholders
• Have begun conducting regular 1 on1’s with staff as well as other managers within Technical Services

Within 90 days

• Take assignment of and drive five (5) cases and 15 chats to closure to help learn our internal processes
• Provide a roadmap for personal growth in the role and justify the order and prioritization
• Have identified areas of efficiency for the team to scale
• Able to assist with regional escalations and RCA’s when needed
• Keep leadership apprised of potentially hot issues and heads-up information related to the team

At 120 days and onward

• Produce a roadmap and review with your manager detailing how you will scale your technical knowledge in the product commensurate with role needs
• Have an approved plan to globally drive improvement in an area of process or tooling efficiency
• Conduct three (3) face-to-face interactions with marquee customers, either in-person or virtually
• Produce growth plans for the team
• Demonstrate the understanding of the short and long term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives

Typical responsibilities of the the technical services engineering team include:

• Becoming well-versed in core aspects of MongoDB and the Atlas managed platform
• Combining technical rigor with customer empathy under pressure to help resolve a wide variety of implementation and operational issues
• Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency and meeting data sovereignty requirements
• Educating on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution
• Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues
• Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team
• Increasing case-deflection numbers by contributing to knowledge-base, distributing knowledge to peers and the general MongoDB community
• Working on named accounts to build rapport and an in-depth understanding of customer architecture and environment(s) while encouraging expansion of use

Our customers are the best and brightest in the business and they have great expectations of our products and our company. If you are the type of person who enjoys helping customers, managing complex, fast-moving situations and leading/managing a talented group of individuals who continuously delight our customers, then this role is for you!

About MongoDB

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.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform our recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$133,000 — $261,000 USD