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We are working to make migration and recovery of MongoDB clusters easy, fast, and reliable. This team is responsible for building scalable, performant, and low-downtime migration tooling such as mongosync, as well as developing and delivering modern disaster recovery systems and managed migration solutions as part of the Atlas Live Migration service. Our tooling is critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas as well as making sure important data workloads stay online in the event of an outage.\nOur global team is growing fast. We are hiring locally in Dublin. This rapid growth requires a Director who will help the team meet its ambitious growth goals for both people and projects.\nWe are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin and Cork for our hybrid working model.\nSuccessful candidates will have a majority of the following qualities\nAt least 7 years of experience in a management position. 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We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.\nWith 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.\nOur compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. 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