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About the role
The Principal Security Engineer will serve as a senior technical anchor for the team. This is a deep individual-contributor role that will stay hands-on with hard security and architecture problems, form sharp independent opinions, and know how to debate, align, and commit once GSO has made a call. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 12+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline, including senior individual-contributor or technical-lead experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Deep, credible technical expertise in security, plus working depth across compute, network, and storage architecture
- A track record of forming and defending independent technical positions, along with the judgment to know when to stop debating and commit
- Experience influencing without formal authority, including with management and cross-functional partners, in both directions — accelerating and slowing down decisions
- Comfort owning ambiguous, deadline-driven work such as M&A diligence or partner risk reviews, and being accountable for the result even without the full picture upfront
More about this role
MongoDB's Global Security Organization (GSO) is looking for a Principal Security Engineer. The GSO secures MongoDB's products, infrastructure, and the trust our customers place in us — spanning product security, corporate security, and risk, and working across engineering, go-to-market, and corporate development to keep security moving at the same speed as the business.
The Principal Security Engineer will serve as a senior technical anchor for the team. This is a deep individual-contributor role that will stay hands-on with hard security and architecture problems, form sharp independent opinions, and know how to debate, align, and commit once GSO has made a call.
Key topic areas will include collaborating with our product teams to ensure identity and permission models meet customer needs for our new autonomous agent platform and working with integration security teams to push the envelope on automated detection, reproduction, and remediation of security vulnerabilities via AI. What we need here is depth, judgment, and the ability to build up the bench of senior technical talent around you.
This role can be based out of our NYC or Seattle office or remotely in the North America...
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