Senior Product Security Engineer

Who You Are

With a strong 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 the platforms they run on. You’re passionate about solving hard security engineering problems while putting a strong emphasis on customer experience. You enjoy collaborating with teams across the company to innovate and implement pragmatic solutions that scale.

Who We Are

The MongoDB Product Security organization is a diverse collection of individuals working together to scale MongoDB’s security—both the security of the products themselves and the security features we offer to customers. We support the security of all customer-facing MongoDB products, including Atlas, Server, and dozens of related services and tools.

Our organization:

• Defines and drives an engaging, forward‑looking security strategy for MongoDB and our customers
• Builds a developer‑driven security program tightly integrated with engineering artifacts, processes, and tooling
• Uses software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact and likelihood of security issues
• Serves as security subject‑matter experts for our tech stack and products, from core database internals to large‑scale cloud services

The ideal candidate will have...

• 7+ years of experience in application, product, or cloud security engineering, supporting the security of large‑scale customer‑facing products running in a major cloud provider, with exposure to the compliance, resilience, and operational demands that come with that environment
• Strong security architecture fundamentals—able to design and review end‑to‑end systems, reason about threat models and risk tradeoffs, and recommend appropriate controls across application, data, and infrastructure in large distributed environments
• Experience designing, building, and operating security tooling and automation that embeds meaningful controls into developer workflows, such as code and dependency analysis, policy enforcement, and self‑service guardrails that make secure defaults the easiest path for engineers
• A strong track record of partnering with software engineers: leading threat models, performing security design reviews, and developing an understanding of their product space to form pragmatic security recommendations and influence their prioritization
• Strong communication skills—you can explain complex technical issues in a simple manner that builds trust with engineers, leaders, and customers
• A strong sense of ownership and follow‑through, paired with a collaborative working style—you bring others along, create space for their input, and offer specific, actionable feedback

In this role, you will...

• Take ownership, define strategy, and drive improvements for key parts of our security program, which may include AI security reviews, code and dependency analysis, build and deployment system security, secrets management and internal access controls, or scoping out large cross-functional security initiatives across engineering teams
• Advocate for and lead complex security projects from inception through completion—from initial problem framing and design reviews through rollout, documentation, and measurable improvements in posture
• Drive architecture, patterns, and processes across engineering teams so that the secure path is the easiest path for developers building MongoDB’s products
• Partner closely with product and platform engineering teams to design and implement security controls in our software, systems, and CI/CD pipelines
• Serve as a security subject‑matter expert for software security and architecture in your areas of ownership, and a trusted advisor to partner teams when they face ambiguous risk trade‑offs
• Partner with cloud detection and response, SRE, and other security teams to create new detection and response capabilities or to support security events when product context is required
• Educate the broader engineering organization through training, Hack 'n Tells, internal documentation, and one‑on‑one mentorship

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

REQ ID: 4263321474