Job brief: Lead, Engineering Backup

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• Listed on MongoDB's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $137,000 to $270,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: New York · New York City
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Lead".

Must have

• 8+ years building, debugging, and operating distributed storage, database, or large-scale data infrastructure systems (storage engines, object storage, backup and recovery systems…
• 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and coaching across a range of levels

Conditions

• Operating these services in production across many cells and regions: observability, on-call, capacity, and cost
• An instinct for storage economics: you have reasoned about cost per GB, data lifecycle, and how physical layout translates into a customer's bill
• Taken over team ceremonies, short-term planning, and on-call ownership

Main duties

• Lead, grow, and manage a team of 6 engineers working in Rust and Java on distributed storage systems; set clear expectations, high standards, and healthy, su…
• Own the team's roadmap across durability, recoverability, cost efficiency, and compliance, in partnership with Backup and Object Storage Services leadership …
• Drive the Atlas Infinite backup roadmap to GA and beyond: define what done means for disaster recovery, compliance, and backup economics, and sequence the wo…
• Manage customer escalations involving backup, restore, or backup cost; work with Support, Atlas, and server teams to reproduce, root-cause, and resolve issues
• Partner closely with the WiredTiger storage engine team, the Storage Layer Services teams that own the Log Service and Page Materializer, Atlas Backup, Atlas…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in New York, NY: $189k a year (479 listings, 40 employers). This listing is 8% higher.
• Across MongoDB's 125 open listings, 51% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How MongoDB hires

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