Security Software Engineer, MongoDB
Infrastructure Security
$147-289k
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
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$147-289k
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
- 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
- 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
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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