MongoDB is looking to strengthen its products by increasing its resonance with customers through enhanced security, aiming to solve hard security engineering problems while prioritizing customer experience and enabling organizations to build, scale, and run modern applications, including AI-powered ones.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in C++ programming to thoroughly assess existing codebases for security vulnerabilities and develop or support remediations and enhancements including mitigating memory-related security flaws such as buffer overflows and memory leaks
- Deep subject matter expertise in database security, application security, software security, or data security
- Deep knowledge database engines,database internals and applied cryptography
- Demonstrated ability to identify and fix security issues through manual code review, application penetration testing, or red teaming
- Scripting experience and ability to contribute code back to our environments
- Comfortable leading threat modeling and being a security ambassador to other engineering teams
- Working knowledge of one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Responsibilities
- You will take ownership, define strategy, and drive improvement for parts of our program such as fuzzing, threat modeling, secrets management, or container security
- Advocate for and lead complex security projects from inception through completion
- Drive architecture, patterns, and processes across cloud engineering that make security the easiest path
- Partner closely with engineering teams to design and implement security controls across our software and systems
- Research and POC new attacks against our systems. Plan and perform product security assessments including architecture review threat modeling, code review, pen testing and general security consulting to proactively build security controls
- Serve as a security subject matter expert for software security and architecture
- Partner with cloud detection and response to create new capabilities or respond to security events
Other
- 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.
- You're passionate about solving hard security engineering problems while putting a strong emphasis on customer experience, leveraging your own significant experience.
- You enjoy collaborating with different teams to innovate and implement pragmatic solutions.
- Communicate complex technical issues in a simple manner that builds trust with a variety of audiences
- A strong sense of ownership and delivery
