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As a TPM for SRE, you will partner with SRE leaders and engineers to scale the platform that underpins all of MongoDB’s cloud products. You will drive program execution, strengthen production reliability practices, and coordinate cross-functional efforts across US and EMEA teams. Success in this role means smoother launches, clearer roadmaps, stronger reliability metrics and an SRE organization that's better-equipped to deliver predictability at scale. This role can be based remotely on the East Coast What You'll Do Drive Program Planning & Execution – Define program scope, milestones, and success criteria with SRE engineers and leaders. Manage dependencies across platform teams, keep work clearly tracked in Jira, and deliver on time Strengthen Production Reliability – Lead change management and launch readiness programs. Partner with SREs and product teams to define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs, and use incident data, metrics, and capacity signals to drive prioritization and continuous improvement Lead Cross-Functional Coordination – Align SRE with Security, Compliance, Cloud platform, and other engineering teams. Coordinate cross-team incident response, ensure clear follow-through, and build trust as the go-to driver of complex, multi-team efforts Build Scalable Systems & Processes – Design lightweight frameworks and communication patterns that help SRE deliver reliably at scale. Work yourself out of the "hero" role by leaving teams better-equipped to execute independently Requirements 8+ years in technical program management, engineering management, or a comparable technical role partnering with software engineering teams Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-team platform initiatives through ambiguity and change Strong knowledge of production change management, software development lifecycle, and reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs) Skilled at shaping roadmaps and managing dependencies Able to query and interpret metrics, logs, or other data s

Atlas Growth is a cloud engineering group whose mission is to guide customers through their app development journey—from cluster configuration, data modeling and load testing, to running a production workload at scale. We use an in-house experiments platform which helps us validate our features quickly, releasing only the work that positively impacts our customers. Our engineers participate in cross-functional “squads” with product, design, analytics, and research focusing on a single metric (e.g. retention). Our engineering team is part of a larger Atlas Core Engineering org, building foundational elements of MongoDB’s developer data platform. Atlas Growth 2 builds customer-facing features in Atlas and sits alongside other Growth engineering teams. Recent projects include an AI Chatbot for cluster creation, a recommendation system that offers tips for better database performance, and a pricing page designed to optimize conversion rates. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Role Overview Atlas Growth seeks a mid-level software engineer (Software Engineer 3). SE3s are solid contributors to projects they work on and often lead projects of their own. They act in accordance with MongoDB’s core values and leadership principles, and are actively working toward a Senior role. Candidate Profile 3+ years of software engineering experience, with fluency in TypeScript/JavaScript, and experience with a modern framework (e.g. React) Proficiency in Java, Go, C++/C, or a similar compiled language is a plus Experience writing database queries, either document-based or relational Experience writing and reviewing technical specs, and leading small projects Interest in A/B testing or product design Expectations Contribute readable and well-tested code to ongoing projects Collaborate closely with product and design partners to implement and iterate on new customer facing features Write scope and technical spec docs for new projects

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications. MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB. The Atlas Clusters Security team creates a first-in-class cloud database security experience for our wide range of sophisticated customers. Our team develops and maintains systems for cluster networking, data encryption, database authentication, and more–enabling countless mission critical applications across the world. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York for our hybrid working model. What you’ll do Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas Contribute to and lead complex technical projects Work closely with product and design teams, considering the user’s perspective while building technical solutions

Join the Atlas Search Query team to design and develop the next generation of Search query architecture, optimization, and execution. Atlas Search is a growing cloud service that allows users to execute complex search and vector search queries using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users can focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. Our team is building a cloud-based distributed system responsible for the core components of search including data ingestion, performance, query language, query execution, for both relevance-based search and vector search. Our product is being adopted quickly and there are many interesting projects. This is a technical role where you will be responsible for the success of complex Search Query feature development. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in San Francisco, CA for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Lead complex projects across the MongoDB ecosystem, for instance, development of a new Search aggregation framework within the MongoDB aggregation framework. Set project level strategy, architect features, and lead projects to successful execution Identify, design, and implement features enhancing our query language, performance, and operability Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our software development processes Influence and grow team members through active mentoring and leading by example What We Look For 5+ years experience in data management/search systems, ideally with a strong query processing and optimization background Experienced in the development and maintenance of stateful distributed systems Eager to shape the technological direction of a complex system and have the ability to lead initiatives through collaboration with others Experienced in debugging and profiling multithreaded applications written in Java and Rust Bonus: experience with designing high-volume query engines, such as a datab

Join the Atlas Search team to design and develop the next generation of Semantic and Vector Search infrastructure. Atlas Search is a growing cloud service that allows users to execute complex search and vector search queries using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users can focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. Our team is building a cloud-based distributed system responsible for the core components of search including data ingestion, performance, query language, query execution, for both relevance-based search and vector search. Our product is being adopted quickly and there are many interesting projects. This is a technical role where you will be responsible for the infrastructure and features enabling our at-scale cloud service powering vector and semantic search. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Lead complex projects across the MongoDB ecosystem, for instance, development of a new Search deployment framework within the MongoDB managed cloud Set project level strategy, architect features, and lead projects to successful execution Identify, design, and implement features enhancing our reliability, performance, security and efficiency Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our software development processes Influence and grow team members through active mentoring and leading by example What We Look For 5+ years experience in data management/search systems, ideally with a strong distributed systems and infrastructure background Experienced in the development and maintenance of concurrent, stateful services Eager to shape the technological direction of a complex system and have the ability to lead initiatives through collaboration with others Experienced in writing features, debugging and optimizing multithreaded applications written in Java Familiarity with LLM

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB. We are forming a new Atlas Clusters team in the Dublin area. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. What you’ll do Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas Contribute to and lead complex technical projects Work with stakeholders throughout MongoDB to build our roadmap and product offerings Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues and become part of our on-call rotation Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles Foster an inclusive and respectful work environment according to MongoDB's Core Values We’re looking for someone who Has at least 6 years of professional software development experience Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Go, Java, C#, etc.). Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP) Has led the launch of a new module and maintained it in production Is eager to solve tough problems Has excellent communication skills Is curious, collaborative, and motivated Success Measures In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project and joined our on-call rotation In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system About MongoDB MongoDB is built for

MongoDB’s Developer Productivity organization exists to help engineers build and deliver high-quality software through a highly effective software development process and a strong foundation of shared tools and services. We are looking for a Senior Director to lead our Pipeline team. This role is tasked with bringing together the major systems and experiences that power software delivery at MongoDB. The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, secure, and effective platform for ensuring fast software deployability, leveraging AI native approaches. We are open to in-office, flexible or remote hiring across Canada. The Team The Pipeline organization sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for the systems, services, and user experiences that define MongoDB’s software delivery ecosystem. This is mission-critical infrastructure operating at substantial scale and supports a variety of software product delivery needs. Success in this role requires excellent product judgment for developer-facing experiences, strong systems and platform leadership, and the ability to align multiple teams around a cohesive strategy. Candidate Profile We’re looking for a senior engineering leader who can unify product-minded developer tooling with deep platform and operational excellence. The right candidate is passionate about developer productivity and has a track record of leading managers and teams through organizational growth, technical complexity, and cross-functional change. They should be comfortable owning a broad portfolio that spans developer experience, reliability and scale, release systems, telemetry, and operational health. They should also be able to work effectively with senior leaders and partners across engineering and product to set direction, allocate resources, and make trade-offs that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform function. The right candidate for this role will 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience bui

MongoDB’s Developer Productivity organization exists to help engineers build and deliver high-quality software through a highly effective software development process and a strong foundation of shared tools and services. We are looking for a Senior Director to lead our Pipeline team. This role is tasked with bringing together the major systems and experiences that power software delivery at MongoDB. The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, secure, and effective platform for ensuring fast software deployability, leveraging AI native approaches. We are open to in-office, flexible or remote hiring across the US. The Team The Pipeline organization sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for the systems, services, and user experiences that define MongoDB’s software delivery ecosystem. This is mission-critical infrastructure operating at substantial scale and supports a variety of software product delivery needs. Success in this role requires excellent product judgment for developer-facing experiences, strong systems and platform leadership, and the ability to align multiple teams around a cohesive strategy. Candidate Profile We’re looking for a senior engineering leader who can unify product-minded developer tooling with deep platform and operational excellence. The right candidate is passionate about developer productivity and has a track record of leading managers and teams through organizational growth, technical complexity, and cross-functional change. They should be comfortable owning a broad portfolio that spans developer experience, reliability and scale, release systems, telemetry, and operational health. They should also be able to work effectively with senior leaders and partners across engineering and product to set direction, allocate resources, and make trade-offs that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform function. The right candidate for this role will 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience bui

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows Pr

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workf

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Cork for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows Pref

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Product Okta’s Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. The Team The Enablement team is at the core of expanding Auth0's capabilities for B2B customers, enabling seamless and automated user lifecycle management at a massive scale. We build and own the critical features that enterprises rely on to connect their identity sources to Auth0, including Enterprise APIs and our powerful self-service capabilities . Our work is highly impactful, helping customers automate the creation, updating, and deactivation of users. This is a cornerstone for B2B SaaS applications that need to efficiently manage access for their own customers and partners. We work with NodeJS , TypeScript , PostgreSQL , MongoDB , and React to build these highly available and scalable services. What you’ll be doing: Help drive the architectural vision and strategy on the team to design and deliver powerful new enterprise APIs and functionality for our customers. Orchestrate and lead major technical projects across teams as necessary. Design, architect, code, and document large-scale distributed systems. Serve as a subject matter expert on building scalable, r

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. About the Team The Okta Workflows team is on a mission to accelerate automation for everyone. Workflows Runtime builds the services and engine that empower our customers to execute billions of workflows each day without writing a single line of code. Our product is a critical part of Okta's Identity Orchestration strategy, providing a powerful, flexible, and intuitive way for customers to connect identity to any application or system. We are a passionate, collaborative team building with modern technologies like Rust, GoLang, Typescript and Node.js on a large-scale, multi-cloud (AWS and GCP) Kubernetes environment. The Opportunity As the Sr. Manager of Engineering for Workflows Runtime, you will be a key leader in defining the future of Identity Orchestration at Okta. You will lead, grow, and inspire the engineering teams responsible for building the entire of the Okta Workflows platform to execute user flows in a high-scale and performant manner. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where you will be responsible for both strategic product direction and operational excellence, ultimately helping our customers automate everything

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Job Overview: We are looking for a highly experienced Staff Engineer to join the FGA Developer Tooling team and lead the evolution of our end to end developer experience across both OSS and SaaS. This team owns the SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, Java and other languages, along with CLI workflows, IDE integrations, GitHub automation, developer documentation, and release strategy. All development is done in the open as open source, and we actively welcome and review community contributions. Our guiding principle is One developer experience, many deployment models. As a Staff Engineer, you will define technical direction, ensure cross language consistency, influence API design in partnership with FGA Core, and raise the quality bar across all developer facing tooling. <h2 id="Respo

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Product Auth0 is a developer-friendly identity platform that simplifies authentication and authorization for applications. Designed by developers for developers, we make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Know more about our product at https://auth0.com/ . The Role We are seeking a founding Engineering Manager to lead and bootstrap our newest team: Core Frontier . This team sits at the vital intersection of deep product innovation and the actual customer experience. Your mission is to ensure that the sophisticated features developed across the Core Identity organization (such as Native to Web, Cross-App Access and Custom Token Exchange) are translated into a seamless and intuitive journey for our users. You will act as the champion for a complete and coherent product experience, bridging the gap between complex internal logic and the polished final result our customers interact with every day. As the inaugural manager for Core Frontier, you will lead the hiring and onboarding of a high-caliber team in Bengaluru while establishing the operational rhythms that drive success. You will partner with global engineering leaders to maintain our high standards for security and reliability, ensuring that every release meets the rigor