MongoDB
Senior Product Manager
$221K
San Francisco +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Remote North America - Experience
- 5+ years of product management experience; the posting does not state an alternative.
About the job
Lead the long-term product direction and operational health of MongoDB Search infrastructure, translating customer needs and complex engineering tradeoffs into platform investments for search and AI applications.
What you'll do
- Set search infrastructure vision and prioritize investments based on emerging vector, hybrid, and AI-native application needs.
- Partner with customers and engineering leaders to shape architecture, balance innovation with production stability, and connect technical choices to business value.
- Work with SRE and Solutions Architects on observability, SLOs, and reliability improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of product management experience focused on infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Mastery of concepts such as CAP theorem, consistency models, and sharding strategies, with real-world empathy for engineering operations.
- Ability to connect technical architecture and operational metrics to business strategy and executive narratives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior engineers and guide architectural decisions without formal authority.
Nice to have
- Production experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene) or vector databases at scale.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or platform capabilities for AI applications.
Pay
$220,626 — $220,626 USD (base salary)
Tools
Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene
AI focus
Guide infrastructure investments for vector, hybrid, and AI-native applications; the posting also favors experience enabling AI applications through AI/ML infrastructure, vector search, embeddings management, or hybrid retrieval systems.
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