Is the Lead, Technical Services role remote?

It's hybrid — MongoDB expects some on-site time in Toronto, Canada.

What's the salary range?

MongoDB lists CAD 137,000–CAD 189,000 for this role.

Where is the role based?

MongoDB is hiring for this position in Toronto, Canada.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ATLAS, Cloud Manager, Compass, Linux, MongoDB, Networking.

What seniority level is this role?

MongoDB targets lead candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Lead, Technical Services role at MongoDB.

Lead, Technical Services at MongoDB

Building on the rapid success and adoption of MongoDB, we are delivering applications and services that make it much easier to manage and scale database deployments. These next-generation systems are a growing list but currently include products such as Atlas, Cloud Manager, and Compass. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity as we scale cloud deployments for our customers.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Toronto for our hybrid working model.

Life in MongoDB Technical Services

As part of the Support organization, you will be directly interfacing with our largest customers and their most difficult problems. There will almost certainly be sweat. But don’t worry – you’ll have time to prepare before you take on your first escalation. The limits of your understanding will constantly be pushed, and you’ll be challenged to grow. Underlying it all is the fuel that drives our team: customer obsession. We keep mission-critical deployments online, recover from high-pressure incidents with grace and humility, become trusted advisors, and work so closely with our customers that they would swear we were part of their team.

Role scope: This is a technical Team Lead role rather than a traditional people-manager role. The Lead is expected to provide day-to-day technical and operational leadership, while formal personnel decisions remain with the manager.

As the Cloud Support Team Lead, you will:

Lead and mentor a small, distributed team as a hands-on technical player-coach
Spend approximately 50% of your time directly supporting customer issues, complex cases, escalations, and technical investigations.
Own frontline service quality by monitoring queue health, case and chat aging, diagnostic quality, staffing coverage, and workload allocation
Lead high-visibility customer escalations and incidents, coordinating Engineering, Product, Support Operations, and other stakeholders
Turn recurring customer problems and support trends into product feedback, process improvements, training, and reusable technical content
Create and maintain SOPs, knowledge articles, training materials, and retrospectives that improve team capability and consistency
Represent Technical Services in cross-functional and cross-region programs, driving execution through influence

Who You Are

You are a calm, empathetic technical leader who earns trust with customers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
You are comfortable leading through influence, ambiguity, and incomplete information
You use data to identify risks, prioritize work, and allocate team capacity
You balance hands-on customer support with coaching, quality management, and continuous improvement

What you need

The ideal candidate will have experience in most of the following areas:

Supporting customers through cases, chats, calls, and high-severity escalations. Preferred experience with running high-severity incidents and follow-the-sun procedures
Leading or mentoring a small team of highly technical support engineers
Strong troubleshooting experience with MongoDB Atlas or comparable cloud database platforms, including cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, security, storage, and performance
A disciplined diagnostic process covering investigation, customer communication, escalation judgment, and root-cause analysis. Experience leveraging AI tools to broaden, improve and accelerate technical diagnostic processes preferred
Coordinating customer-impacting incidents and internal technical responders
Improving support operations through queue analysis, workload allocation, staffing coverage, training, and process improvement
Strong communication and collaboration skills across Engineering, Product, Security, Legal, Billing, Support Operations, and global Technical Services

Nice to Have

Experience with Cloud Manager, Compass, or large-scale relational or NoSQL databases
Experience managing FIN(Intercom), chat-support, case-management, or similar customer-support workflows
Experience leading incident reviews, RCAs, operational audits, or security/compliance improvements
Experience creating technical training, LMS content, knowledge programs, or enablement assessments
BONUS: Experience with DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, observability, automation, or scripting

Success Measures

First 3 months: Build relationships, understand team operations and customer demand, and begin contributing to complex escalations. Learn the Atlas product and master most common customer use cases
By 6 months: Independently lead escalations, establish recurring queue and quality reviews, improve coverage, and deliver at least one durable process or enablement improvement. Acquire Atlas Administrator certification
By 12 months: Demonstrate measurable improvement in service quality, escalation execution, team capability, coverage, and cross-functional delivery while remaining hands-on technically

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 3273573572

AI is used to review applications based on job-related criteria and does not replace human decision-making. The hiring team decide who moves forward.

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, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is:

$137,000—$189,000 CAD