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Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security (Staff or Senior)

MongoDB · Austin; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; United States

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
66 days
MongoDB's roles stay open a median of 66 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of MongoDB's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at MongoDB
high
337 stale, 7 reposted of 411 open
Hiring momentum
575 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from MongoDB's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for MongoDB.

About this role

In this role, you will be part of the Infrastructure Security team within Site Reliability Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on enhancing security for MongoDB Atlas across multiple cloud platforms. Your daily tasks will include hardening containerized workloads, managing automated cloud security services, writing production-quality code, and building real-time security monitoring systems. You will also lead initiatives from design to implementation, ensuring long-term reliability of security measures.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of MongoDB as an employer.

What you need

  • 3+ years in SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Security Engineering for Mid-Level; 5+ years for Senior; 10+ years for Staff
  • Strong coding skills in Go (Golang), Python, C, C++, or Rust
  • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for automated infrastructure provisioning
  • Experience with Linux, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Nice to have

  • Practical experience with eBPF-based security tooling (Cilium, Falco, Tetragon)
  • Direct ownership of Cloud Security and Workload Identity platforms
  • Multi-cloud expertise spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Production exposure to low-level Linux security mechanisms (seccomp, AppArmor, SELinux, cgroups)

What you get

  • Equity
  • Participation in the employee stock purchase program
  • Flexible paid time off
  • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
  • Fertility and adoption assistance
  • 401(k) plan

Worth weighing

  • Remote work options vary by level; Mid-Level requires hybrid work in NYC
  • Salary range is broad and dependent on various factors
  • Focus on security infrastructure may limit exposure to other engineering areas

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Listed by MongoDB on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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