Lead Engineer, Docs Platform

Company: MongoDB
Location: New York
Posted on: October 20, 2024

Job Description:

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 anywhere-on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it's no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.
This role is part of the leadership team for the MongoDB Education Engineering Department, which includes the MongoDB Documentation platform team, MongoDB University (online learning) platform team, and Education AI team. The charter of MongoDB Education is to get millions of people to learn MongoDB. We view learning as a multidimensional journey as different people learn differently and we want to reach learners where they are and with their learning preference. We offer multiple learning experiences today including "read it", "watch it", "try it", "achieve it" and now "ask it" using AI technology.
In this role, you will lead the Documentation Platform Engineering team. The Documentation Platform delivers 60M page views a year and is critical to our users' understanding of MongoDB products. You will manage a team of engineers who bring in the "best of class" technologies into our infrastructures, integrate them and also develop apps/extensions to meet our learning vision and needs.
This role can be based out of one of our offices in Canada or the USA, or remotely in Canada or the USA.
What you'll do...

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• Lead the Docs Platform Engineering team responsible for overseeing documentation platforms.
  
• Manage and oversee the Documentation platform team.
  
• Direct a team of distributed engineers focused on integrating and developing technologies to support learning and documentation vision and needs.
  
• Bring in "best of class" technologies into infrastructures.
  
• Develop apps and extensions to enhance learning capabilities.
  
• Play a key role in shaping the technological infrastructure supporting the organization's learning initiatives.
  
  We're looking for someone with...
  
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  • 7+ years of experience in the industry, and 1+ years of experience managing others
    
  • Demonstrated experience in estimating project timelines and communicating rationale for delays
    
  • Demonstrated skill in designing software and making informed engineering trade-offs based on project requirements, team capacity, and other factors
    
  • Hands-on experience and understanding of git, TypeScript, React, CI/CD, markup languages, and other technologies
    
  • Experience with MongoDB (or at least a track record of solutioning with other databases)
    
  • Successful track record in leading technical projects
    
  • Ability to work at a strategic level to contribute to the vision of Education and also at a tactical level to move projects forward
    
  • Ability to take business requirements at a strategic level and "solution it" i.e. design architectures and solutions to enable new learning capabilities
    
  • Passion for integrations - we bring together multiple technologies to build the best experience for our docs users
    
  • Interest in experimenting with new technologies like AI
    
  • Interest in cross functional technical projects including back end, front end, web traffic and analytics projects
    
  • Strong leadership skills to build cross-team relationships and alignment
    
    To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys., and help us make an impact on the world!
    MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
    MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:$137,000-$270,000 USD

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