MongoDB

MongoDB

Escalation Manager - EST hours

United States

Sponsorship not specified$101k-$198kDetected 22 hours ago
Distributed SystemsNoSQLMongoDBAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsLinuxDevOpsIncident ResponseStakeholder ManagementAccount ManagementNegotiationExcelProcess ImprovementCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportCadenceSystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationAdaptabilityOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • The Escalation Manager is a critical role within Technical Services.
  • Individuals in this role are highly organized, proactive, and professional.
  • Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a portfolio of high-impact, long-running escalations and drive them to resolution
  • Map customer stakeholders, set and reset expectations, and maintain clear, consistent communication
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Field leadership to secure resources and drive issue resolution
  • Maintain a regular communication cadence, including executive summaries for internal stakeholders
  • Deliver high-quality incident resolution focused on root cause analysis, prevention, and knowledge transfer
  • Identify recurring operational gaps and drive improvements from problem statement through rollout and results tracking
  • Experience using data, recurring themes, and post-incident learnings to drive process improvement or programmatic change
  • We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
  • To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.

Requirements

  • Escalation Experience: 3+ years managing highly technical customer escalations in the software industry
  • Technical Depth: Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, including experience with distributed systems and advanced computing concepts
  • Adaptability: Ability to learn new technologies quickly and think clearly in complex situations
  • Engineering Fluency: Experience in software engineering, including comfort with programming, queries, and command-line operations
  • Cloud Depth: Cloud expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including familiarity with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
  • Leadership Presence: Strong leadership presence with the ability to bring structure to ambiguity and help teams navigate high-pressure situations

Nice to have

  • NoSQL experience preferred

Skills

  • Position Expectations
  • Skill in conducting customer-facing and internal technical root cause analysis
  • Hands-on experience as a database, network, or storage administrator

Compensation

  • Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package.
  • 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:

Benefits

  • From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.

Company info

  • Experience working with customers, stakeholders, and vendors in corporate or vendor environments
  • MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
  • With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.

This listing is sourced directly from MongoDB's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.