Staff Software Engineer, MongoDB
Server Security
$137-270k
More information about location
Developer data platform
Posted today
Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$137-270k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- An ideal candidate has experience writing secure, high quality application code, can communicate complex technical concepts well, and has great diagnostic intuition as it applies to security in complex distributed architectures
- 10+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on security
- Ability to diagnose thorny technical issues central to databases: distributed systems, data replication, query optimization, data storage, OS internals, concurrency and scheduling, networking, etc
- Expertise in common network security protocols, fundamental cryptographic principles, and related technologies: e.g., TLS, Private/Public Key Cryptography, PKI, Hashing, CRLs, token-based auth, etc
- Experience supporting production environments, and/or working directly with end-users to investigate and diagnose highly technical security issues
- Read and understand the intent of code and stack traces in many languages, especially C++
- Stand for code quality and software design best practices
- Quickly grok and clearly synthesize implications of system behavior
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) as you will be working with users from all over the world with very diverse backgrounds, as well as with a highly technical engineering team
What the job involves
- MongoDB is seeking highly technical candidates for a role on the Server Security team as a Staff Software Engineer. Server Security is a development focused group within the engineering organization
- The Server Security team builds features in the core MongoDB Server that enable database users to secure their data, such as TLS and X.509 certificate management, at-rest data encryption, authentication and authorization systems, and the new Queryable Encryption offering
- Our team operates close to the bottom of the stack, and has a lot of influence over the safety and robustness of our open source database and a growing ecosystem of cloud services and client applications
- In this role, you'll be a leader in continually improving our security posture by owning features and tools that support this mission
- In addition, you'll have the opportunity to lead security investigations into some of the most challenging and complex areas of our codebase, collaborating with software engineers across the organization
- Design and lead complex projects to improve our security posture
- Implement, test, and support new features related to cryptography, security engineering, and compliance assurance, in a large feature-rich C++ codebase
- Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure, well-reasoned and high-quality features
- Collaborate with other teams in engineering, cloud services, support, consulting, training, and marketing to coordinate feature rollouts and changes
- In 1 week:
- You have completed your first Pull Request
- In 3 Months:
- You demonstrate a thorough understanding of our existing architecture
- You are a productive contributor to select components of the Server Security codebase
- You are identifying opportunities for improvement of security and/or code quality within the codebase
- You are providing security-focused reviews of pull requests and design proposals from other MongoDB server engineers
- In 6 Months:
- You have made a substantial new addition to the security codebase
- You play an active role in defining and driving the short and long term roadmap of our product
- You mentor other members of the team on secure concepts and code quality
- You are acting as a representative of the team in inter-team discussions
- You can speak to holistic strengths and weaknesses in product capabilities
- You can lead the response to some escalations from our experienced Technical Services Team
- In 12 Months:
- You are running a large project to improve our security offerings
- You demonstrate a deep understanding of one or more Server Security components
- You are a deeply respected mentor for our team and all surrounding teams and advocate for and on behalf of the Server Security team
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 values
- Think Big, Go Far
- Build Together
- Embrace the Power of Differences
- Be Intellectually Honest
- Own What You Do
- Make it Matter
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
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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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