Product Security Engineer

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Who You Are

With a security engineering background, you’re looking for a role that gives you the freedom to increase MongoDB’s resonance with customers by strengthening our products and support practices. You’re passionate about solving hard security engineering problems while putting an emphasis on customer experience, leveraging your own significant experience. You enjoy collaborating with different teams to innovate and implement pragmatic solutions.

Who We Are

The MongoDB Product Security organization is a diverse collection of individuals working together to scale MongoDB’s security, both security of the products themselves and the security features we offer to customers. The team is responsible for several products including MongoDB Atlas Cloud, Ops Manager, Kubernetes Operator, and the MongoDB Server (Community and Enterprise editions).

The MongoDB Product Security organization works with engineers across the company to design, implement, and operate systems in a manner that protects customer data. It is a multidisciplinary team that covers product, software, cloud, infrastructure, and operational security concerns.  

Responsibilities

• You will take ownership and drive improvement for our Technical Services Engineering organization, which supports our customers as they use our products
• Advocate for, and lead, security projects from inception through completion
• Drive security patterns and processes across Technical Services Engineering that make security the easiest path
• Partner closely with Technical Services Engineering teams to design and implement security controls across our software and systems
• Partner with our security detection and response teams to create new capabilities or respond to security events
• Educate the Technical Services Engineering org on security through CTFs, lunch-and-learns, and one-on-one mentorship

Requirements

• 3 years of experience in security engineering
• Subject matter expertise in support engineering practices
• Demonstrated ability to identify and fix security issues
• Scripting experience and ability to contribute code back to our environment
• Comfortable leading threat modeling and being a security ambassador to other engineering teams
• Communicate complex technical issues in a simple manner that builds trust with a variety of audiences
• A strong sense of ownership and delivery
• Can facilitate a conversation rather than dominate it
• Skilled at providing collaborative, actionable feedback, not just a list of flaws

Don’t feel that you meet all of the requirements?  We encourage you to apply anyway because studies have shown that some strong candidates may self-select out of the interview process prematurely.  We have a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and high-performing environment at MongoDB and want to continuously improve our ability to deliver for customers.

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of one or more core project languages (Golang, Java, C++, Javascript, Python)
• Working knowledge of one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with large scale environments

Success in this role means

• Taking ownership of one or more security programs such as appsec, cloud, or detect/response
• Seeing projects through from conception to completion in order to deliver new services or capabilities for the team
• Establishing yourself as a go-to person for discussing security topics

This role can be based out of our New York City or Seattle offices or remotely in North America.

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