Technical Services Engineer

MongoDB; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

MongoDB in Palo Alto is seeking a Technical Services professional to support our largest customers on mission-critical challenges. You’ll ramp up, then be stretched daily to grow your expertise and impact.

You will work with core MongoDB tech, communicate clearly under pressure, advocate for customer needs, and help drive reliability across deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills with performance tuning.
• Proven track record supporting production systems for large-scale applications.
• Diagnostic ability tracing issues end-to-end across apps and infra.
• Familiarity with RDBMS and NoSQL concepts; MongoDB experience preferred.
• Experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes; scripting or coding ability.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call style support for mission-critical deployments with customers.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, availability and stability issues.
• Translate complex technical issues into clear, empathetic communication for customers.
• Collaborate across teams to drive optimal deployment sizing and tuning.

Skills

Linux admin

Production support

Distributed systems

Networking basics

Scripting

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Prometheus/Grafana

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

MongoDB is helping define the next era of application development as organizations modernize legacy systems, build AI‑native experiences, and power mission critical workloads across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. From MongoDB Atlas, our AI ready developer data platform, to our industry leading server technology and enterprise software offerings, MongoDB provides a flexible and unified software stack that helps customers build faster, scale with confidence, and support a wide range of modern application needs.

MongoDB’s standing in the market reflects that momentum: the company continues to be recognized as a leader in cloud database management while also serving organizations that require the performance, flexibility, and control of self‑managed deployments. For candidates, that means the opportunity to join a company with strong market relevance, a builder‑first culture, and a clear strategic focus on shaping the future of modern, intelligent applications wherever they run.

We’re looking to speak to candidates based in Palo Alto, California for our hybrid working model.

Life in MongoDB Technical Services

As part of MongoDB Support, you will work directly with our largest customers on their most complex, mission‑critical challenges. You’ll have time to ramp before taking your first escalation, but once you’re in the seat, expect to be stretched every day — technically and professionally — as you grow your expertise and impact.

In Technical Services, customer obsession is our fuel. We:

• Become deeply skilled in the core aspects of MongoDB, then develop specialized expertise in areas like performance, scalability, security, or data modeling
• Combine technical rigor with empathy, communicating clearly and calmly under pressure
• Advocate for our customers’ needs and use what we see in the field to influence product priorities
• Keep critical deployments online and help customers navigate high‑stakes incidents with humility and grace
• Turn our experience into learning for others through knowledge articles, internal talks, mentoring, and ramping new teammates

If you love solving hard problems, collaborating closely with customers, and continuously leveling up your skills, Technical Services at MongoDB is where you can do the best work of your career.

Who You Are

You’re insatiably curious, empathetic, and relentlessly customer‑focused. You build trust quickly, communicate clearly in high‑stakes situations, and exercise sound judgment about when to collaborate or bring others in. We’re especially excited by self‑taught candidates who learn fast, navigate complex systems with confidence, and make the most of the resources around them.

What you need

The ideal candidate will have experience in most of the following areas:

• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills, including performance, memory, I/O, configuration, security, networking, clustering and storage
• Proven track record supporting and troubleshooting complex, mission‑critical production systems for large‑scale database‑backed enterprise applications, including diagnosing and resolving performance, availability and stability issues.
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting ability – tracing issues end‑to‑end across the application, database and infrastructure, including analysing logs across distributed systems and microservices.
• Familiarity with database administration concepts across RDBMS and/or NoSQL systems; MongoDB experience is preferred
• Experience analysing customer workloads and translating performance, availability and scalability requirements into concrete deployment, sizing and optimisation recommendations.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals – TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, load balancers, proxies, firewalls and VPNs – including diagnosing latency and connectivity issues.
• Familiarity with security concepts like authentication, authorisation, encryption, certificates and key management
• Experience analysing logs and tracing issues across distributed systems or microservices
• Basic scripting or coding ability, and comfort reading code or production automation
• Skilled at translating complex technical issues into clear, empathetic communication that builds customer confidence and trust.
• Patience, empathy and a genuine desire to help customers and teammates
• Stay calm under pressure, solve problems in real time, and collaborate across multiple teams
• Ability to learn quickly and willingness to ramp on new technologies.

Nice to Have

• Experience with MongoDB products such as Atlas, Cloud Manager, Ops Manager, Compass, or Kubernetes Operator/Controller
• Experience with DevOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices
• Experience with authentication systems such as OIDC, Kerberos or Active Directory
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience managing large‑scale databases
• Experience with backup, restore, disaster recovery and related operational workflows
• Exposure to AI‑related technologies such to Vector Search
• Experience coding in Python, Go, Java, Ruby, C/C++ or similar languages
• Experience reproducing issues locally or maintaining personal test environments
• Experience in working on Network Security or Cyber Security is a plus.
• Awareness of common vulnerability classes and basic threat modelling

Success Measures

• In 3 months, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
• In 6 months, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
• In 12 months, you will be a technical specialist within MongoDB and will be helping your peer engineers in advance diagnostics. Also, you will be encouraged to handle technical escalations independently

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 organisations modernise 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 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI‑native startups 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 your 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, colour, 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.

REQ ID: 2273494972

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 counselling, 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:

$90,000—$176,000 USD