Senior Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity

MongoDB is a leading company in the data platform industry, seeking a Senior Director to lead their Pipeline team. This role focuses on enhancing software delivery through effective strategies and systems, ensuring a reliable and scalable platform for developers.

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

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