Director, Engineering

We are seeking a Director to join and lead the Cluster to Cluster Synchronization team. We are working to make migration and recovery of MongoDB clusters easy, fast, and reliable. This team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration tooling such as mongosync , as well as developing and delivering modern disaster recovery systems and managed migration solutions as part of the Atlas Live Migration service. Our tooling is critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas as well as making sure important data workloads stay online in the event of an outage. Our global team is growing fast. We are hiring locally in Dublin. This rapid growth requires a Director who will help the team meet its ambitious growth goals for both people and projects. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin and Cork for our hybrid working model. Successful candidates will have a majority of the following qualities At least 7 years of experience in a management position. Experience as a manager of engineering managers is required Proven success with hiring for, mentoring and growing strong geographically distributed software engineering teams Commitment to building and fostering a diverse and supportive culture Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and strong desire for cross-team collaboration Excellent time management skills and the ability to make and evaluate realistic assessments of project complexity Proven success in designing, writing, testing and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases. Golang knowledge is a plus, systems programming language familiarity is required (go, rust, C++, C) Has led the launch of new features and maintained them in production with a high level of observability and operational excellence Familiarity with distributed systems such as consensus protocols, data replication, distributed transactions, and fault tolerance Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems is a plus Position Expectations Ensure smooth and timely execution of projects Contribute ideas and work with Product Management as well as technical and senior leadership to build a roadmap for the team’s deliverables Appropriately allocate team resources, balancing efforts between building new features and supporting/maintaining previous releases Provide direction to the team on balancing short-term results with long-term goals Grow your organization ensuring desirable skill composition, high job satisfaction and vibrant culture Delegate effectively splitting your own time between technical and management aspects of the position Lead by example, assuring the team operates with company core values, engineering cultural standards, and our leadership commitment in mind Serve as a representative for your team within the larger engineering organization Success Measures Within 3 months: Know your team members’ strengths and professional objectives Understand and be able to explain the technical architecture of the migration tooling, live migrate, and disaster recovery components Contribute in technical discussions and provide meaningful reviews of team members’ technical documents based on your prior experience Within 6 months: Ensure team delivers with high quality and predictability Supervise the short-term (quarterly and annual) planning process for your team Establish working professional relationships with other key leads and directors Mentor team leaders Supervise hiring and retention for your team Within 12 months: Have a vision for the future of cluster-to-cluster data movement and the components aligned with your teams Have a plan to execute that vision along with planning for team growth Represent team interests and work with other stakeholders to balance priorities among requests from oth