Escalation Engineer
MongoDBAlberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; Nova Scotia; Ontario; Quebec; TorontoPosted 24 February 2026
Job Description
MongoDB Technical Services’ Escalation Engineers are at the forefront of problem solving with key customers on our most visible and escalated issues. They combine deep product knowledge and expertise across multiple domains, polished technical communications, and exceptional account leadership to rapidly develop customer confidence and positive outcomes, through clear presentation of complex technical details, authoritative guidance and recommendations, and timely, effective solutions. Our engineers combine their MongoDB expertise with passion, initiative, collaboration and a great sense of humor to achieve exceptional results for our customers.
This role can be based out of our Toronto office or remotely in Canada.
This role specifically follows a weekend support model (Wednesday-Sunday, Saturday-Wednesday, or Friday-Tuesday, with the next two days as the week-off) and requires adherence to East Coast Hours (9am to 5pm EST). If you're passionate about being an Escalation Engineer working with our largest enterprise customers and are open to flexible, weekend-oriented scheduling, we encourage you to apply.
Cool things you’ll do
MongoDB is on a mission to continue changing the way people think about databases. Along the way, our customers encounter questions and issues about how our approach to databases works for their use case. In Technical Services, it's our job to help our customers succeed with MongoDB. You'll be working alongside our largest customers, solving their complex issues - resolving questions on architecture, performance, recovery, security, and everything in between. You'll be an expert resource on the best way to run MongoDB at scale, whatever that scale may be. As an advocate for customers' needs, you will collaborate with our product management and development teams on their behalf. And you'll contribute to internal projects, including software development of support tools for performance, benchmarking, and diagnostics. Additionally, you will also mentor and ramp new team members, and take initiatives in building knowledge of new product lines within the MongoDB ecosystem.
What you need
You should have 7+ years of relevant experience. We consider all candidates, with an eye for those who are self-taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.
It’s crucial for every candidate that they can check off all of these boxes:
Strong team partnerships: Understanding of when and how to seek help from team members, skill in choosing from and/or synthesizing potentially conflicting perspectives or approaches, and ability to lead in collaborative efforts
Work across multi-functional teams to resolve extremely impactful customer issues
Deep and nuanced experience working with customers in escalated situations
Great communication and account leadership skills, with a good organizational understanding of customers
Enjoy getting deeply involved in and taking ownership of tricky cases, and driving them through to resolution
Able to quickly understand and communicate about customer workloads, use cases, and resiliency criteria, including performance, availability, and scalability
Comfortable reading and quickly navigating unfamiliar code, with coding/scripting proficiency in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, etc
Strong systems engineering and troubleshooting experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, virtualization, clustering
Storage engineering experience, including SAN, NAS, SSD, multi-pathing, caching, and tuning
Experience building, maintaining, tuning, and troubleshooting sophisticated mission-critical production database systems
Experience analyzing and pursuing issues holistically, from the client and application tiers, through the database, down to the storage, and any potentially unfamiliar corners in between
Genuine desire to help people, and to increase their confidence and good will
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