Technical Services Lead

MongoDB Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Technical Team Lead within the Support organization to guide a small distributed team, lead escalations, and coordinate cross-functional efforts. The role emphasizes customer obsession, service quality, and continuous improvement.

You will balance direct customer support with coaching and technical leadership. You will spend about half your time on complex investigations, drive process improvements, and mentor engineers while representing Technical Services

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leader who mentors a distributed team.
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas or comparable cloud databases.
• Experience leading high-severity incidents and postmortems.
• Experience with customer-facing support operations.
• Ability to translate customer problems into product feedback and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Spend ~50% time supporting customer issues, escalations, and investigations.
• Lead frontline service quality and workload allocation.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams during escalations.
• Create SOPs and training materials.
• Represent Technical Services in cross-regional programs.

Skills

Leadership

Technical leadership

Customer empathy

Incident management

Mentoring

Tools

MongoDB Atlas

Cloud Manager

Compass

Intercom

Job description

• As part of the Support organization, you will be directly interfacing with our largest customers and their most difficult problems. There will almost certainly be sweat. But don’t worry – you’ll have time to prepare before you take on your first escalation. The limits of your understanding will constantly be pushed, and you’ll be challenged to grow
• Underlying it all is the fuel that drives our team: customer obsession. We keep mission-critical deployments online, recover from high-pressure incidents with grace and humility, become trusted advisors, and work so closely with our customers that they would swear we were part of their team
• Role scope: This is a technical Team Lead role rather than a traditional people-manager role. The Lead is expected to provide day-to-day technical and operational leadership, while formal personnel decisions remain with the manager
• Lead and mentor a small, distributed team as a hands‑on technical player-coach
• Spend approximately 50% of your time directly supporting customer issues, complex cases, escalations, and technical investigations
• Own frontline service quality by monitoring queue health, case and chat aging, diagnostic quality, staffing coverage, and workload allocation
• Lead high-visibility customer escalations and incidents, coordinating Engineering, Product, Support Operations, and other stakeholders
• Turn recurring customer problems and support trends into product feedback, process improvements, training, and reusable technical content
• Create and maintain SOPs, knowledge articles, training materials, and retrospectives that improve team capability and consistency
• Represent Technical Services in cross-functional and cross-region programs, driving execution through influence
• Success Measures
• First 3 months: Build relationships, understand team operations and customer demand, and begin contributing to complex escalations. Learn the Atlas product and master most common customer use cases
• By 6 months: Independently lead escalations, establish recurring queue and quality reviews, improve coverage, and deliver at least one durable process or enablement improvement. Acquire Atlas Administrator certification
• By 12 months: Demonstrate measurable improvement in service quality, escalation execution, team capability, coverage, and cross-functional delivery while remaining hands‑on technically

You use data to identify risks, prioritize work, and allocate team capacityYou are comfortable leading through influence, ambiguity, and incomplete informationYou are a calm, empathetic technical leader who earns trust with customers, engineers, and cross‑functional partnersYou balance hands‑on customer support with coaching, quality management, and continuous improvementCoordinating customer‑impacting incidents and internal technical respondersA disciplined diagnostic process covering investigation, customer communication, escalation judgment, and root‑cause analysis. Experience leveraging AI tools to broaden, improve and accelerate technical diagnostic processes preferredImproving support operations through queue analysis, workload allocation, staffing coverage, training, and process improvementStrong communication and collaboration skills across Engineering, Product, Security, Legal, Billing, Support Operations, and global Technical ServicesLeading or mentoring a small team of highly technical support engineersStrong troubleshooting experience with MongoDB Atlas or comparable cloud database platforms, including cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, security, storage, and performanceThe ideal candidate will have experience in most of the following areas:Supporting customers through cases, chats, calls, and high‑severity escalations. Preferred experience with running high‑severity incidents and follow‑the‑sun proceduresExperience with Cloud Manager, Compass, or large‑scale relational or NoSQL databasesExperience leading incident reviews, RCAs, operational audits, or security/compliance improvementsExperience managing FIN(Intercom), chat‑support, case‑management, or similar customer‑support workflowsExperience creating technical training, LMS content, knowledge programs, or enablement assessmentsBONUS: Experience with DevOps, infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, automation, or scripting