Staff Software Engineer - Server Security - Remote

Overview

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 and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

In Short

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Employee affinity groups
• Fertility assistance
• Generous parental leave policy
• Equity and employee stock purchase program
• Flexible paid time off
• Mental health counseling
• Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings