About the Role
MongoDB’s Developer Productivity organization aims to empower engineers with an effective software development process and robust shared tools and services. We are seeking a Senior Director to lead the Pipeline team, responsible for integrating major systems and experiences that drive software delivery at MongoDB. The team's mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient platform for rapid software deployment, utilizing AI-native approaches.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy, execution, and operating model for MongoDB’s end-to-end software delivery pipeline, including continuous integration and release enablement.
- Set portfolio priorities and resource allocation in partnership with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing urgent delivery needs with long-term platform investments.
- Enhance the experience for internal engineering users while improving reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Establish and evolve metrics for measuring developer productivity, system health, and business impact across the pipeline portfolio.
- Build a high-performing organization by developing managers, strengthening succession depth, and clarifying expectations, accountability, and career development.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for critical trade-offs and cross-functional issues, ensuring decisions align with company priorities and their downstream consequences are understood.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems; experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering is a strong plus.
- 6+ years of experience managing multiple teams and building a strong bench of leaders in a geographically distributed organization with a track record of success in hiring, performance management, and fostering a team growth mindset.
- Track record of scaling large software systems used by software engineers, ideally including CI/CD, release, or other developer infrastructure platforms with large scale workloads.
- Strong judgment across both developer-facing product experience and underlying platform architecture, including user workflows, system reliability, operational insight, and service scalability.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code principles; experience with Kubernetes and AWS is especially valuable.
- Understanding of how to use telemetry, metrics, and analytics to improve developer productivity and operational health.
- Experience or strong familiarity with software supply chain and release concerns, including reliability, security, and operational rigor.
- Ability to define strategy and drive execution in ambiguous environments with broad organizational impact, acting as a trusted escalation point for complex technical and organizational trade-offs.
- Comfortable owning a broad portfolio spanning developer experience, reliability and scale, release systems, telemetry, and operational health.
- Ability to work effectively with senior leaders and partners across engineering and product to set direction, allocate resources, and make trade-offs.
Skills
- Developer tooling
- Platform engineering
- Observability
- Data engineering
- CI/CD
- Release systems
- Developer infrastructure
- Cloud infrastructure
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Telemetry
- Metrics
- Analytics
- Software supply chain
- Release management
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- 6+ years of management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $210,000—$300,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Employee stock purchase program
- Flexible paid time off
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match
- Mental health counseling
- Backup child and elder care
- Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings
About the Company
- 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 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 is an equal opportunities employer.
