The Atlas Search Team Empowers Engineers: Meet Nolan Lum is about a senior software engineer, Nolan Lum, who works on the Atlas Search team at MongoDB. She shares her experience of growing her career in the engineering team and working on search-related challenges. The team tackles various projects, including optimizing data consistency and providing guarantees on what data users read back from the database. Nolan likes working on the team because it offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for traditional engineering, product challenges, hard technical problems, and more. She appreciates the leadership's focus on empowering engineers to succeed and giving them space to do so. The company values diversity, inclusivity, and equal retention of employees, which has helped her feel comfortable being herself at work. Nolan was impressed by MongoDB's approach to measuring performance and its fair culture during the hiring process, leading her to accept an offer and grow her career in the organization.