Staff/Senior Security Software Engineer, MongoDB

Infrastructure Security

CA$173-240k

+ Equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Linux

Terraform

Splunk

C++

Rust

Azure

Grafana

Golang

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Vancouver

Remote from Canada

More information about location

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Developer data platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

CA$173-240k

+ Equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Linux

Terraform

Splunk

C++

Rust

Azure

Grafana

Golang

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Vancouver

Remote from Canada

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles, preferably with relevant security work
Proficiency with at least one programming language (Java, Golang, Rust, Python, or C/C++) and experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) to automate security configurations and processes
A deep understanding of Linux and networking concepts, including low-level fundamentals, and how they work together in complex systems
Experience building security-related features or platforms such as runtime monitoring, CSPM, or vulnerability management
Experience with a cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their security best practices and building blocks
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its security ecosystem (e.g. RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, eBPF, Falco, Tetragon)
A systems mindset: you think about failure modes, performance, observability, and operability alongside security and correctness
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex security concepts and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

What the job involves

We are hiring an experienced Security Software Engineer (Staff or Senior) for our Infrastructure Security team to design and build scalable security controls and services within MongoDB Atlas multi-cloud infrastructure
The team sits within the Site Reliability Engineering organization and works with other engineering teams to ensure that our infrastructure adheres to the highest security standards
You'll design and build core security primitives and services that protect MongoDB Atlas compute, networking, and identity across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Build secure-by-default infrastructure using Linux security mechanisms (AppArmor, SELinux, seccomp, cgroups), Kubernetes, and eBPF to enforce runtime policies and gain deep visibility into systems behaviour
Develop APIs, automation, and tooling that manage security posture at scale (CSPM, vulnerability management, workload identity) and provide monitoring, logging, and alerting pipelines that integrate with our tooling (Grafana, Splunk, Victoria Metrics.)
Integrate security into our CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows (Terraform) so that security controls are versioned, reviewed, and deployed just like any other code
Lead complex projects end‑to‑end, from problem discovery and design docs to implementation, rollout, and long‑term ownership
Collaborate with SRE, platform and product engineering teams to define secure architectures for new infrastructure and services

Our take

MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.

Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.

Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.

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Insights

Top investors

13% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jan 2015

$80m

SERIES G

Oct 2013

$150m

SERIES F

Total funding: $311.1m

Company benefits

Rich health insurance coverage
Virtual & on-site fitness classes
Health screenings & telemedicine
Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
Global and internal mobility opportunities
Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
Pension & retirement programs
Income Protection
Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
Employee Assistance Program
Mental health counseling
Free meditation app access
Fertility & adoption financial assistance
Parental counseling for new parents
20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
4 weeks of emergency care leave

Company HQ

Theater District, New York, NY

Leadership

Dwight Merriman

(Co-Founder)

Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.

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