mongodb
Senior Product Security Engineer, Server
At a Glance
- Location
- Dublin
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Department
- D23040-Platform Security
- Posted
- 2026-02-19T13:13:46-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
Requirements
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 core database products.
You’re passionate about solving hard security engineering problems while putting a strong emphasis on customer experience, leveraging your own significant experience.
7+ years of experience in application security, software security, or product security
Proven experience in C++ programming, performing security assessments on low-level codebases, and implementing remediation strategies for memory-related security flaws such as buffer overflows and memory leaks
Programming experience and ability to contribute code back to our environments
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
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 Server 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
About the Company
The MongoDB Product Security organization is a diverse collection of individuals working together to scale MongoDB’s security, both security of the products themselves and the security features we offer to customers. The team is responsible for the MongoDB Database Server (
Community
and
Enterprise
editions).
The MongoDB Product Security organization works with software engineers to design, implement, and operate systems in a manner that protects customer data. It is a multidisciplinary team that covers product, software, cloud, infrastructure, and operational security concerns. The team does the following: