Staff Software Engineer - Server Security

July 5

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MongoDB

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SaaS • Enterprise • Gaming

MongoDB is a leading developer data platform provider known for its powerful and flexible document database. MongoDB 8. 0, the latest version, boasts 36% higher throughput and enhanced security features, making it the fastest iteration yet. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services including MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed cloud database, and Community Edition for local development. MongoDB is popular among developers and enterprises for its ability to support a range of use cases from artificial intelligence to gaming and healthcare. It simplifies the development of modern applications with its versatile platform, allowing integration with various technologies to drive innovation. MongoDB's community and extensive documentation further support developers globally.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🎮 Gaming

📋 Description

• 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. • MongoDB is seeking highly technical candidates for a role on the Server Security team as a Staff Software Engineer. • Server Security is a development focused group within the engineering organization. The Server Security team builds features in the core MongoDB Server that enable database users to secure their data, such as TLS and X.509 certificate management, at-rest data encryption, authentication and authorization systems, and the new Queryable Encryption offering. • Our team operates close to the bottom of the stack, and has a lot of influence over the safety and robustness of our open source database and a growing ecosystem of cloud services and client applications. • In this role, you'll be a leader in continually improving our security posture by owning features and tools that support this mission. • In addition, you'll have the opportunity to lead security investigations into some of the most challenging and complex areas of our codebase, collaborating with software engineers across the organization. • An ideal candidate has experience writing secure, high quality application code, can communicate complex technical concepts well, and has great diagnostic intuition as it applies to security in complex distributed architectures. • This role can be based out of the New York Office or remote, working East Coast hours. • 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. • Design and lead complex projects to improve our security posture.

🎯 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 • Ability to: • Read and understand the intent of code and stack traces in many languages, especially C++ • Stand for code quality and software design best practices • Quickly grok and clearly synthesize implications of system behavior • 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

• equity • participation in the employee stock purchase program • flexible paid time off • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave • fertility and adoption assistance • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match • mental health counseling • backup child and elder care • health, dental, and vision benefits offerings