Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity

MongoDB is a company built for change, empowering customers and employees to innovate rapidly. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead teams focused on developer productivity and improve the software development lifecycle through measurable enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Improve engineering visibility and decision-making. Ensure your team delivers the systems, analytics, and reporting needed for Engineering leadership to understand the health, performance, and efficiency of the software development lifecycle
• Evaluate, integrate, and build AI-enabled interfaces and tools that drive engineer productivity improvements, with a focus on measurable impact and responsible rollout
• Drive the roadmap. Partner with Staff and Senior Staff ICs, TPMs, and stakeholders to define and evolve a 12-month roadmap that balances near-term delivery with long-term platform investment

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, growth planning, and compensation; required for external candidates and preferred for internal candidates
• 8+ 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
• Demonstrated the ability to lead through ambiguity, work across team boundaries, and deliver outcomes without close supervision
• Strong customer orientation and sound judgment in finding practical, high-leverage solutions
• Experience working with systems involving analytics, data pipelines, and metrics platforms
• Experience with AI tools development and enablement efforts
• Strong technical judgment, including the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, identify risks, and ask the right questions without needing to be hands-on in the code every day
• Ability to connect observability, engineering metrics, and AI capabilities to meaningful improvements in the developer ecosystem
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, peer managers, and senior leadership
• A track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams where engineers can do their best work