Senior Director, Engineering

MongoDB•New York, NY

5h•$168,000 - $330,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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 looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York for our hybrid working model. 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.

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.
Have a 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.
Bring strong judgment across both developer-facing product experience and underlying platform architecture, including user workflows, system reliability, operational insight, and service scalability.
Have experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code principles; experience with Kubernetes and AWS is especially valuable.
Understand how to use telemetry, metrics, and analytics to improve developer productivity and operational health.
Have experience or strong familiarity with software supply chain and release concerns, including reliability, security, and operational rigor.
Be able 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.

Nice To Haves

experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering is a strong plus.
experience with Kubernetes and AWS is especially valuable.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy, execution, and operating model for MongoDB’s end-to-end software delivery pipeline across continuous integration and release enablement functions.
Set portfolio priorities and resource allocation in partnership with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing urgent delivery needs with long-term platform investments.
Improve the experience of internal engineering users while also raising the bar on reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
Establish and evolve mechanisms for measuring developer productivity, system health, and business impact across the pipeline portfolio.
Build a healthy, high-performing organization by growing managers, strengthening succession depth, and creating clarity around expectations, accountability, and career development.
Serve as a senior escalation point for critical trade-offs and cross-functional issues, ensuring decisions are aligned to company priorities and understood in terms of their downstream consequences.