Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who is ready to lead through ambiguity and improve how software gets built at MongoDB. This role leads teams focused on developer productivity, with an emphasis on measurable improvements to the software development lifecycle.

This role can be based remotely in Canada.

The Team

The AXIS team (AI, X-functional tools, Insights, and Signals) sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for overseeing the metrics and observability infrastructure of our expansive developer environment to help build a strong data-driven culture. You’ll also be a key partner in building the agentic ecosystem for AI-driven development across engineering.

Candidate Profile

We’re looking for an experienced leader with a passion for solving the big challenge of measuring developer productivity and providing the actionable signals that help teams improve their performance. They should be comfortable working collaboratively with other leaders and partners across our Engineering and Data teams in maximizing the use of data for insights and AI enablement.

The right candidate for this role will have

• 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

Department: R&D Developer Productivity