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Lead, Technical Services

Lead a technical support team at MongoDB, focusing on customer escalations and operational leadership in a remote role.

Location
New York City, United States
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
lead
Type
full time · Remote

Posted by employer 6 hours ago

First seen on Joblaze 56 minutes ago

Last verified on the company career page 56 minutes ago

What you'll build

  • Lead and mentor a small, distributed team
  • Support customer issues and technical investigations
  • Monitor queue health and service quality
  • Lead customer escalations and incidents
  • Create and maintain SOPs and training materials

Must have

  • Supporting customers through cases, chats, calls, and high-severity escalations
  • Leading or mentoring a small team of highly technical support engineers
  • Strong troubleshooting experience with MongoDB Atlas or comparable cloud database platforms
  • Coordinating customer-impacting incidents and internal technical responders
  • Improving support operations through queue analysis and process improvement

Nice to have

  • Experience with Cloud Manager, Compass, or large-scale relational or NoSQL databases
  • Experience managing chat-support or case-management workflows
  • Experience leading incident reviews or operational audits
  • Experience creating technical training or knowledge programs
  • Experience with DevOps or automation

Role intensity

50% coding

AI in the day-to-day

Experience leveraging AI tools to improve and accelerate technical diagnostic processes preferred.

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Lead, Technical Services at MongoDB, the individual will provide hands-on technical leadership while directly addressing complex customer issues and escalations. Key skills include strong troubleshooting capabilities with MongoDB Atlas and experience in managing high-severity incidents, alongside a focus on improving support operations. This position is ideal for a calm, empathetic leader with a background in technical support and a knack for mentoring a small team. The role emphasizes customer obsession and collaboration across various functions to enhance service quality.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 9, 2026. Last confirmed on MongoDB's careers page October 9, 2026.
  • This exact title is also open at 1 other location at MongoDB: Toronto, Canada.
  • Linux appears in 1.9% of 594 comparable lead other roles in United States; Storage appears in 0.2% of 594 comparable lead other roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Lead, Technical Services role remote?
Yes — MongoDB lists this as a fully remote position.
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.

From the original posting

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.

This role will be based remotely in Canada.

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, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req ID: 3273573572

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:
$0.01—$0.01 USD

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