Remote Senior Engineering Manager, Storage & Durability

MongoDB; United States; On-site; USD 151,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a 8–10 engineer Storage Execution team based in New York and potentially remotely within the United States. The role emphasizes customer success, durable data storage, and strong leadership across durability, availability, and performance.

You will own the team roadmap, handle customer escalations, and drive process improvements to boost velocity and code quality. East Coast hours are preferred, with a focus on cross‑team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent systems software (databases, storage engines, filesystems, or similar).
• 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and coaching across a range of levels.
• Willing to work East Coast hours.
• Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically-typed language such as C++, Rust, or Go; prior C++ and systems programming experience is a plus.
• Durability, availability, and performance tradeoffs in distributed systems; experience with replication, consensus, storage engines, or transactional systems is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated customer obsession: direct experience working with demanding customers (or customer support / cloud teams) on complex incidents and turning them into clear, outcome-oriented recommendations.
• Proven ability to develop people: mentoring and promoting engineers, managing underperformance directly, and building high-engagement teams with low regretted attrition.
• Comfortable leading multi-quarter initiatives with multiple stakeholders and using written documents to align teams on design, scope, and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow and manage a New York–based team of 8 to 10 engineers; ensure clear expectations, high standards, and healthy, sustainable execution.
• Own the team’s roadmap across durability, availability, performance, and developer productivity, in partnership with OLTP leadership and Product Management.
• Manage customer escalations involving storage behavior and durability; work directly with Support, Atlas, and other server teams to reproduce, root‑cause, and resolve issues.
• Drive process and tooling improvements that raise engineering velocity and code quality (e.g., ownership, review expectations, customer escalation and build failure practices).
• Partner closely with Replication, Query, Sharding, Catalog & Routing, Storage Engines, and Atlas teams on cross‑team features such as the new storage architecture, availability improvements, and workload management.
• Represent Storage Execution in planning, staffing, and calibration; make thoughtful tradeoffs between near‑term deliverables, longer‑term availability gaps, and platform investments.

Skills

Distributed systems

People mgmt

C++

Rust

Go

Customer focus

Leadership

Hiring

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a 8–10 engineer Storage Execution team based in New York and potentially remotely within the United States. The role emphasizes customer success, durable data storage, and strong leadership across durability, availability, and performance.

You will own the team roadmap, handle customer escalations, and drive process improvements to boost velocity and code quality. East Coast hours are preferred, with a focus on cross‑team collaboration.