Critical Situation Manager (Escalation Manager)

At MongoDB, we are disrupting industries and equipping developers with the tools to create extraordinary applications that impact daily lives. As the leading developer data platform and the pioneering database vendor to execute an IPO in over two decades, we offer an environment at the cutting edge of creativity and innovation. The international data management software landscape is vast and expanding swiftly. Data from IDC indicates the global database management systems (DBMS) software market was valued at roughly $82 billion in 2023 and is projected to scale to approximately $200 billion by 2030, demonstrating an exceptional compound annual growth rate. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model. The Role & Team Overview We are seeking an accomplished technical leader to join our Technical Services organization as the head of the EMEA Incident & Escalation Management teams. In this critical capacity, you will guide the teams responsible for ensuring our clients can smoothly operate MongoDB at scale and seamlessly navigate any technical hurdles. This position demands a leader who can maintain a hands-on approach—taking direct ownership of high-profile escalations that require coordinated corporate responses—while concurrently expanding the team, refining processes, and advancing strategic objectives within a global critical situations management framework. Team Overview: As an integral component of the Customer Organization, Technical Services boasts more than 500 global members across worldwide offices. We maintain industry-leading customer satisfaction metrics through a 24x7x365 'follow-the-sun' support framework, with specialized regional teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. The EMEA team operates out of hubs including Dublin, Milan, Barcelona, and Tel Aviv. Core Responsibilities Collaborating with global leadership to architect and execute strategic plans for critical situations management,

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customer’s adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role: We are looking for a leader to build and scale our Support Engineering team, which will collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts, our product and engineering teams, as well as our field teams to solve some of the most difficult technical problems faced by our customers. You will lead one of the best technical troubleshooting teams at OpenAI, and our customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements. Working directly with our most strategic customers - You will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI platform. This team will handle high difficulty situations and issues. The team will be global, providing 24x7 technical coverage for our customers. This will be an opportunity to build this new team from first principles - your leadership will determine the future of this organization. The ideal candidate will have a combination of technical capabilities mixed with strong leadership and systems building strength. This role is based in Dublin. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the off

About the Team The Technical Support team is responsible for ensuring that developers and enterprises can reliably build mission critical solutions using OpenAI models. We provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our highly-capable models. We work closely with Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. We think from an automation-first mindset and leverage the latest in AI to scale our support operations. Join the Senior Support Engineering (SSE) team at OpenAI and help shape the future of Technical Support in the age of AI. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Support Engineer to collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts and product teams, helping solve some of the most difficult problems faced by our Customers. You will be part of the best technical troubleshooting team at OpenAI, and our Customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment. As a Senior Support Engineer, you will design and run operational processes to monitor our top strategic customers and a 24x7 response team. You’ll work closely with our Infrastructure and Engineering teams to deliver the best possible experience to customers at scale. Working directly with our most strategic Customers - You will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI API platform. The nature of this role will be low volume, high difficulty. This role is based in Dublin, Ireland. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Be among the foremost technical and troubleshooting experts for our API platform at OpenAI. You are the last line of defense before the core Engineering team. Proactively identi

About the Team The Senior Support Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that developers and enterprises can reliably build mission critical solutions using OpenAI models. We provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our highly-capable models. We work closely with Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. We think from an automation-first mindset and leverage the latest in AI to scale our support operations. Join the Senior Support Engineering (SSE) team at OpenAI and help shape the future of Technical Support in the age of AI. About the Role We’re looking for a Support Engineering Manager to build and guide a high-performing team of experienced Senior Support Engineers with backgrounds in software engineering, site reliability engineering, and systems architecture. These engineers are trusted to operate with autonomy, tackle deeply technical challenges, and serve as the final escalation point before Engineering. In this role, you'll lead a team focused on deep problem-solving, proactive reliability work, and customer-specific troubleshooting. You’ll drive the design and operations of OpenAI’s incident management processes, including tooling, automations, and training, and ensure they are scalable and resilient. You’ll also oversee strategic customer workload monitoring, alerting, and a 24x7 rotation to ensure high-priority issues are caught early and handled with urgency. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Technical Success, and field teams to improve the supportability of our products, reduce operational burden, and shape the future of AI-driven technical support. Your team will own incident response playbooks, build internal automations, and serve as technical stewards for our most strategic accounts. This is an opportunity to define what world-class technical support looks like in the

Squarespace Dublin is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for our Databases team within Infrastructure Foundations. This is a critical role responsible for ensuring Squarespace's infrastructure operates seamlessly and reliably for our product engineering stakeholders and millions of customers. You'll maintain key backend infrastructure powering the Squarespace platform and build automation + tooling to help scale our infrastructure. Focusing on developing against our backend tech stack composed of components such as MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Kafka, you'll be responsible for designing, architecting, and provisioning new infrastructure to help unlock new product functionality. The job is hybrid in our Dublin Office: 3 days in the office, 2 days from home. You will report to the Databases Engineering Team Manager. You’ll Get To… Develop automation that interacts with our infrastructure in the GCP cloud. Drive performance improvements and enhance scalability for infrastructure in components like MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Kafka. Collaborate with engineering teams across all of SQSP on building new services that scale for the future. Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and professional development by participating in technical design reviews and mentoring junior team members. Work in: MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Kafka to name a few of our most commonly used infra components. Who We’re Looking For 7+ years of experience developing backend systems with GoLang or similar object-oriented programming languages. Understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, databases, and software design principles. Experience with GoLang, document, and relational databases Familiarity with event-driven systems and messaging tools (e.g., Kafka). BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience. Proven ability to take technical ownership, lead large, complex projects, and influence architectural direction across teams. Bene

We are seeking a Staff engineer to design, build, and operate the internal and external Observability stack for the MongoDB platform. Tens of thousands of customers depend on our Observability stack to monitor their database clusters and to generate actionable alerts to safeguard critical workloads. This is an opportunity to join a team that is responsible for all Observability systems that support metrics, metric visualization, logs, traces, and alerts for MongoDB. We are looking for engineers with high standards, and experience in setting direction and technical leadership for large engineering teams in designing and operating complex distributed systems, with strict SLO on security, durability, availability and performance. As MongoDB Atlas and its supporting infrastructure continue to experience rapid growth, the demand for high-cardinality observability data for internal and external use cases means we need to continually innovate and scale our systems to the next level. For example, MongoDB Observability systems need to handle 10’s of billions of metrics time series, all whilst processing petabytes of logs, traces, and events. Our stack includes VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, Flink, WarpStream/Kafka, Java, Golang Fluentbit. In addition to owning critical components of our observability infrastructure, as a Staff engineer on the team, you’ll also work closely with other SWE, Product and SRE teams to promote and implement best practices in instrumenting and monitoring their services. This is a highly collaborative role, and you will get to own some of the most relied upon internal infrastructure at Mongo. Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to be a deeply technical leader on a collaborative team that applies low-level systems expertise to build the foundational infrastructure of a popular database, join us! Let’s build a faster, more reliable, and exceptionally observable database system together. W