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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Security

MongoDB · Austin; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; United States; Washington DC · On-site

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About MongoDB

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About the role

At MongoDB, we are building the future of data platforms with MongoDB Atlas; our fully managed, multi-cloud database service. The Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team sits within Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in the CTO organization. We are an engineering team dedicated to building the security infrastructure, primitives, and reusable controls that protect MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (GCP). Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years in SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Security Engineering
  • Strong coding skills in Go (Golang), Python, C, C++, or Rust
  • Proven track record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platform infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for automated infrastructure provisioning
  • Demonstrated experience owning infrastructure in Linux, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
More about this role

At MongoDB, we are building the future of data platforms with MongoDB Atlas; our fully managed, multi-cloud database service. The Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team sits within Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in the CTO organization. We are an engineering team dedicated to building the security infrastructure, primitives, and reusable controls that protect MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (GCP).

InfraSec operates on a preventative, enabling model: rather than acting as a manual approval gatekeeper or compliance auditor, we develop automated guardrails and platform capabilities. We integrate security directly into the platform runtime, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows so engineering teams can operate securely at scale without friction.

This role can be based out of NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Washington DC, & Boston.

  • Harden hosts and containerized workloads using Linux security mechanisms (AppArmor, SELinux, seccomp, cgroups) and eBPF-based tooling (Cilium, Tetragon)
  • Secure containerized infrastructure across multi-cloud environments via RBAC, network policies, admission controls (Gatekeeper), and...

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