Senior Storage Engineering Manager (Remote Canada)

MongoDB; New York (NY); Hybrid; CAD 191,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a New York‑based Storage Execution team, with the role able to be based remotely from Ontario, Canada. You will guide 8–10 engineers, shape the roadmap for durability, availability, and performance, and collaborate across teams to ensure reliability of MongoDB’s core storage stack.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years building distributed systems and 2+ years of people leadership, with strong expertise in C++, Rust, or Go, and a

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
• Deep understanding of 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 on complex incidents and turning them into outcomes
• Proven ability to develop people: mentoring and promoting engineers, managing underperformance directly, and building high-engagement teams
• 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
• Partner closely with Replication, Query, Sharding, Catalog & Routing, Storage Engines, and Atlas teams on cross-team features
• 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 management

C++

Rust

Go

Customer focus

Mentoring engineers

Leadership communication

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a New York‑based Storage Execution team, with the role able to be based remotely from Ontario, Canada. You will guide 8–10 engineers, shape the roadmap for durability, availability, and performance, and collaborate across teams to ensure reliability of MongoDB’s core storage stack.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years building distributed systems and 2+ years of people leadership, with strong expertise in C++, Rust, or Go, and a