Lead, Technical Services Engineer - Partners

MongoDB's Technical Services Engineering team uses exceptional problem-solving and customer service skills, along with deep technical experience, to advise customers and solve their complex MongoDB problems: consulting on application and schema design, optimizing performance and scalability, resolving production outages, designing and reviewing operational procedures such as business continuity plans, and explaining MongoDB internals. As Lead, Technical Services Engineer, Partners, you will mentor, train, and coach a team of Partner TSEs while remaining hands-on with the most complex partner and mutual-customer issues. You will work with the team Manager and take on day-to-day operational responsibility for the team, ensuring caseload is addressed accurately, quickly, and professionally, with a constant focus on customer and partner success. You will also collaborate with Customer Success Management, Solutions Architects, Partner teams, and other internal stakeholders on high-profile partners and customers as we migrate and support business-critical applications. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Bengaluru for our hybrid working model. Required 2+ years of experience leading teams, directly or indirectly Patience, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others ~7 years of experience building, managing, and maintaining complex, mission-critical, large-scale production database systems (RDBMS, NoSQL, or both). Coding/scripting ability in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, etc. Experience working with APIs to integrate with 3rd-party technologies and software in areas such as security and fraud, big data analytics and AI, healthcare, content management, IoT, database performance monitoring and management, financial services, and telco Solid hands-on systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting process, with significant experience analyzing and troubleshooting end-to-end issues holistically in production, from the application tier through the database down to storage Troubleshooting experience with the TCP/IP networking stack on OS and hypervisor, including firewalls and load balancers Experience using or administering one or more cloud stacks such as AWS, Azure, or GCP Hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting NAS, SAN, local storage, and multi-pathing Experience building solutions involving application workloads and use cases Strong background in performance tuning and benchmarking, and in providing technical support to internal and/or external customers Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and find solutions in real time Preferred Experience using or managing MongoDB Experience developing applications in one or more programming languages using a NoSQL or SQL database Strong understanding of authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, and AD Experience with distributed version control systems, in particular git Experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration systems using vendor-specific Enterprise operators Experience working with software product teams, and familiarity with product release processes from planning to release Success Measures In 3 months, you will have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its partner ecosystem, completed New Hire Training, and built working relationships with your team, the Manager, and key partner and internal stakeholders In 6 months, you will be running day-to-day team operations (workflow, escalations, meetings) with the Manager, comfortable working frontline with customers and partners, and will have completed the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam In 12 months, you will be a recognized technical specialist and people