MongoDB

Technical Services Engineer, Named Accounts

MongoDB$90K — $176K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in the database industry managing operational databases at scale (on-premise and cloud)
  • Expertise in components of the MongoDB ecosystem, including server, drivers, and Cloud Manager
  • Strong understanding of cloud architectures like GCP, Azure, or AWS
  • Excellent customer management and stakeholder communication skills
  • Systems engineering proficiency, including Linux and networking concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Advise large enterprise customers on technical MongoDB issues and solutions
  • Coordinate the resolution of complex issues regarding architecture, performance, and security
  • Act as a liaison between customers and product management teams
  • Provide best practices for running MongoDB at scale
  • Build strong customer relationships and understand their unique use cases.

Benefits

  • Equity and employee stock purchase participation
  • Flexible paid time off policy
  • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
  • Fertility and adoption assistance
  • 401(k) plan with contributions
  • Mental health counseling services
  • Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage.
Full Job Description
MongoDB Technical Services Engineers for Named Accounts, as part of the Premium Services team within Technical Services, will use their exceptional problem solving and customer service skills, along with their deep technical experience, to advise customers and solve their complex MongoDB problems.

They are experts in one or more components of the MongoDB ecosystem - database server, drivers, our management suite, and services such as Cloud Manager (the online product we developed for customers for automation, backup, monitoring, and analysis of their MongoDB systems), and MongoDB Atlas. Our engineers combine their MongoDB expertise with passion, initiative, teamwork, and a great sense of humor to achieve exceptional results for our customers.

We're looking to speak with candidates based in San Francisco or Palo Alto for our hybrid working model.
Cool things you'll do

MongoDB is on a mission to change the way people think about databases. Along the way, our customers encounter questions and issues about how our approach to databases works for their use cases. In Technical Services, it's our job to help these people.

You'll be primarily working alongside a handful of our largest enterprise customers - building a relationship, intimately guiding their use of MongoDB products and services, coordinating the resolution of their complex issues, - answering questions on architecture, performance, recovery, security, and everything in between. You'll be an expert resource on best practices for running MongoDB at scale, whatever that scale may be. You'll be an advocate for customers' needs, - interfacing with our product management and development teams on their behalf.
What you need

You should have 7+ years of database industry experience deploying and managing operational production databases at scale, both on premise and in the cloud. We encourage you to apply even if you've never used MongoDB before. We consider all candidates with an eye for those who are self-taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.

It's crucial for every candidate to check off at least 50% of these boxes:
  • Experience building and maintaining complex, mission-critical production database systems
    • Monitoring and Alerting
    • Backup and Recovery
    • Security
    • Data modeling and schema design
    • Performance tuning
    • Solutions architecture
  • Understanding of and experience with Cloud architectures, specifically: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Customer management - passionate about being in a customer-facing technical role, showcasing ownership of technical success, and prioritizing customer work
  • Stakeholder management - experienced in communicating effectively and in a timely manner with various stakeholders on matters important to them internally and externally, influencing decisions, and calibrating communication style for different audiences
  • Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting
  • Should have a good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS etc.)
  • Storage engineering experience, including NAS, SAN, SSD, multi-pathing, and caching
  • Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier, through the database, down to the storage
  • Genuine desire to help people
  • Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
  • Able to read code, with basic coding/scripting ability in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, etc.
  • Desire and ability to rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills
  • Strong teamwork
    • Willingness and ability to get help from team members when required, and the good judgment to know when to seek help
    • Ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally to ensure customer needs are being met
Bonus Points
  • Experience managing large scale databases (e.g. RDBMS, NoSQL)
  • Experience with authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, AD
  • Experience using or managing MongoDB
Success Measures
  • In 3 months, you'll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
  • In 6 months, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
  • Within 6-12 months, you will be a part of the Premium Services team within Technical Services and you will be expected to be the primary point of contact for customers and be managing their MongoDB needs independently


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:

$90,000-$176,000 USD

About MongoDB

MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. MongoDB is a leading NoSQL database that allows developers to build applications with ease and flexibility. MongoDB is used by many of the world's largest organizations to power their most critical applications. MongoDB is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the globe.
Learn more about MongoDB
Size
3,544 employees
Market Cap
$12.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.9 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+50.1%
Revenue
$590.3 million
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