Role Overview

Join MongoDB as a Lead Engineer, Catalog & Routing in Dublin, Ireland, and become a key architect of the world's most advanced distributed database platform. The Catalog and Routing team at MongoDB hides the complexity of building scalable distributed systems, delivering interfaces with strong consistency guarantees that power global data partitioning. Your work directly impacts MongoDB's horizontal scaling strategy and developer productivity across the organization.

Recent innovations include moving unpartitionable datasets across nodes without keyspace splitting, colocating cluster services to reduce resource consumption, and enabling concurrent data definition operations. If you're passionate about solving novel distributed systems challenges at massive scale, this MongoDB engineering career in Dublin is your opportunity to make databases scale for everyone.

Key Responsibilities at MongoDB

• Manage a small team of individual contributors, ensuring their technical success, career growth, and effective collaboration
• Foster a positive team culture while balancing coding, design, mentorship, and leadership responsibilities
• Lead agile practices to deliver horizontally scaling features on predictable schedules
• Design, implement, test, and support new features for data consistency and disaster recovery in our C++ codebase
• Maintain expertise in state-of-the-art distributed systems research and advocate for best practices
• Collaborate with product management, server engineers, client drivers, cloud services, and marketing teams
• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers in writing scalable, industrial-strength software
• Drive major feature development for MongoDB Atlas sharding and catalog optimizations
• Partner with cross-functional teams to coordinate changes impacting 60,000+ customers

Qualifications & Requirements

To succeed as a Lead Engineer, Catalog & Routing at MongoDB Dublin, you'll need:

• 5+ years of distributed systems development experience with expert-level C++ skills
• Proven engineering management experience leading individual contributors to success
• Deep expertise in horizontal scaling, sharding, data consistency, and distributed databases
• Strong agile methodology experience delivering complex features predictably
• Ability to navigate technical tradeoffs and collaborate across engineering organizations
• Passion for staying current with distributed systems research and innovations
• Experience with large, feature-rich C++ codebases in production environments

Success Timeline: In 3 months, you'll contribute to major version features and build team relationships. By 6 months, you'll own code reviews and individual growth plans. Within 12 months, you'll lead major feature development and establish yourself as a technical leader.

Salary & Benefits

MongoDB offers competitive compensation for Lead Engineer roles in Dublin, typically ranging from $140,000-$200,000 USD equivalent based on experience, plus comprehensive benefits including:

• Competitive equity packages with stock options
• MongoDB University unlimited training platform
• Global Family Leave and generous parental benefits
• Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support
• Fertility assistance and family planning coverage
• Hybrid Dublin working model with flexible hours
• Employee affinity groups and DEI initiatives
• Professional development budget for conferences

Why Join MongoDB?

MongoDB powers the AI era database for nearly 60,000 customers including 75% of Fortune 100 companies. Our cloud-native MongoDB Atlas platform spans AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, enabling innovators to modernize legacy systems and unleash AI applications. As a Dublin-based Lead Engineer, you'll work on the core scaling infrastructure that makes this possible.

Our Leadership Commitment guides everything we do, creating a culture where employees thrive through affinity groups, generous benefits, and clear career growth paths. Join a global team that's redefining databases for the modern developer data platform.

How to Apply

Ready to lead distributed systems innovation at MongoDB? Apply now for the Lead Engineer, Catalog & Routing position in Dublin. We're seeking Dublin-based candidates for our hybrid model. Submit your application today and join the team scaling databases for the AI era. Don't miss this opportunity to impact MongoDB's global scaling strategy.