Senior Software Engineer Atlas Clusters Security jobs at Mongodb in United States, New York

• Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas
• Contribute to and lead complex technical projects
• Work closely with product and design teams, considering the user’s perspective while building technical solutions
• Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues
• Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles
• Learn from and mentor other team members

• Has at least 5 years of professional software development experience
• Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Is comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g. React, TypeScript)
• Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Has led the launch of a new module and maintained it in production
• Is eager to solve tough problems
• Has excellent communication skills
• Is curious, collaborative, and motivated

• In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
• In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project
• In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system

• Overall Program Planning
  • Establishing program objectives and goals
  • Establishing inter and intra dependencies to complete the program on-time
  • Developing a detailed program management plan that integrates scope, schedule, budget, risk, communication, quality, and integration strategies
• Contract and Finance Management
  • Expertise in creating, meticulously tracking, and strictly controlling a large, fixed budget. This includes accurate forecasting, variance analysis, and proactive cost optimization
  • Thorough understanding and effective management of the contractual terms such as scope, change control, milestone deliverables, quality and performance, financial payment terms and penalties
  • Program Delivery and Governance
  • Developing and maintaining a highly detailed and integrated master schedule that accounts for all integration activities, critical milestones, and interdependenciesIdentifying the critical path with precision and proactively managing activities along this path to ensure on-time delivery of the integrated system
  • Actively enforcing adoption of MongoDB’s Agentic AI platform for automating all aspects of legacy application modernization. This will be a key metric for the overall success of the program
  • Diligently monitoring progress against the established schedule, proactively identifying potential delays, and implementing effective mitigation strategies to stay on track
  • Managing resources and optimizing the allocation of resources with the right number, at the right time from the right geographies to meet demanding schedules without causing over or under utilization
  • Managing stakeholders communicating effectively to ensure customers and MongoDB’s objectives are met and to communicate program status on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to various levels of customer organizations
  • Program status reporting to ensure all program metrics are tracked and reported to ensure programs are running on-time, on-budget while meeting customer expectations
  • Ensure delivery processes are followed, which includes timely and accurate feedback to engineering teams to improve the Agentic AI platform as part of its on-going development and evolution
• Team Leadership and Management
  • Providing leadership to a matrixed team spanning different geographies and cultures to operate as one cohesive unit to achieve overall program objectives

• 10+ years of program management experience leading enterprise-scale technology transformation programs
• Excellent customer interaction and presentation skills (ability to present to different audiences and bring the message across in a concise, professional manner)
• Demonstrated belief in the power of stakeholder management and communications; track record of affecting change through stakeholder engagement
• Services delivery experience with diverse teams that span geographies and cultures
• Ability to travel to customer sites to actively engage and build trusted partner relationships across the customer organisation

• Agentic AI driven integrated development Platform
• Legacy Modernization Methodologies
• Document Database
• Delivery Excellence

• Ideally 8 to 11 years of related experience in a customer facing role, with 5 to 7 years of experience in pre-sales with enterprise software
• Minimum of 3 years experience with modern scripting languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, SQL) and/or popular programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Java, C#) in a professional capacity
• Experience designing with scalable and highly available distributed systems in the cloud and on-prem
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers to review complex architecture of existing applications, providing guidance on how to improve by leveraging technology
• Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical and business concepts in a clear and compelling manner to technology and business leadership
• Ability to strategize with sales teams and provide recommendations on how to drive a multi-threaded account strategy, aligning other MongoDB and ecosystem resources to move towards a mutually beneficial account plan
• The ability to travel up to 25%
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Experience selling databases and/or deploying applications with any of the major cloud providers
• Experience with database programming and data models
• Experience in data engineering or AI/ML projects
• Experience in transforming legacy systems and platforms into modern, scalable, and efficient technology stacks
• Understanding of popular sales methodologies/ frameworks such as MEDDPICC/ Command of the Message
• A MongoDB Certification
• A Cloud Provider Certification

In this role, you will work on complex opportunities where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. You will:

• Design and Architect: Design scalable and performant applications, systems and infrastructure for large software projects leveraging MongoDB
• Customer Advising and Value Articulation: Guide customers on architecture patterns and optimisation strategies for MongoDB, while clearly communicating its business value to the relevant stakeholders
• Sales Partnership: Collaborate with the sales team to drive account success through account planning, opportunity prioritization/qualification and pipeline generation strategy, while taking ownership of the technical aspects (including but not limited to technical discovery, demos, proof of value, presentations, sizing and documentation)
• Demand Generation: Proactively generate demand within the sales territory through self-driven technical initiatives, participation in events such as industry trade shows and account-based marketing events
• Customer Success: Foster strong customer relationships, build champions and ensure customer success and satisfaction
• Innovation and Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to innovate and improve MongoDB solutions and processes (e.g. by relaying field feedback to the product team), as well as proactively mentor other Solutions Consulting team members
• Personal Training and Development: Engage in ongoing training and professional development to stay abreast of MongoDB product suite as well as industry trends

• Core Database Server: Master the fundamentals and advanced features of MongoDB's core database
• Atlas and Advanced Services: Gain expertise in Atlas (fully managed cloud database service), Atlas Stream Processing, Atlas Data Lake, Atlas Full-Text Search, Atlas Vector Search, and Charts
• Relational Migrator: Learn to migrate from relational databases seamlessly

• Hyperscaler Ecosystem: Gain expertise in designing complex systems utilizing cloud services on hyperscaler platforms
• Complementary Technologies: Enhance your skills with partner and complementary technologies such as Apache Kafka and Kubernetes

• Design Patterns and Methodologies: Embrace best practices in microservices, DevOps, cloud, and security
• Cutting Edge RAG and AI Architectures: Help customers on their generative AI journeys and working with industry leading partners in the space

• Effective Communication: Master presentations, demonstrations, and whiteboarding
• Client Interaction: Develop strategies for discovery and objection handling

• Diverse Market Verticals: Gain exposure to a broad spectrum of interesting use cases across various industries

We’re also investing in , a specialized backend service for building AI agents to help engineers debug tasks. Written in TypeScript, Sage is part of our push to bring AI-powered tooling to the heart of our developer productivity ecosystem.

• Design, build, and optimize web applications in React, GraphQL, and TypeScript, focusing on performance and user experience
• Lead development on Spruce and Parsley, delivering data-rich, highly interactive experiences that scale to massive CI workloads
• Collaborate with backend engineers working in Go and TypeScript to build seamless integrations between frontend and backend services
• Contribute to Sage, developing AI-powered agentic flows that help engineers debug tasks more effectively
• Ensure best practices in testing (Cypress), monitoring, and reliability
• Mentor team members and help shape the technical and cultural direction of our team

• 5+ years of strong experience in React and TypeScript
• Experience working with backend systems (experience in a statically typed compiled language like Go is a plus)
• Interest in developing agentic services and working with AI-powered developer tooling
• Track record of designing and implementing performant, large-scale web apps
• Familiarity with end-to-end testing frameworks such as Cypress or playwright
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including algorithms, data structures, and systems design
• Ability to thrive in environments with high impact and uncertainty, driving projects from 0→1 and beyond

• In three months, you’ll have contributed to Spruce or Parsley, shipping improvements in performance or user experience. You’ll understand the architecture and be in discussions about Sage’s AI-driven services
• In six months, you’ll have led development on a substantial feature in Spruce or Parsley, and contributed to Sage’s AI agentic workflows. You’ll be recognized as a go-to person for frontend performance and developer experience
• In twelve months, you’ll be initiating and leading projects that shape the future of developer productivity at MongoDB, across frontend, log analysis, and AI agentic services. You’ll mentor teammates and influence architectural direction on new greenfield projects.

This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely in the region.

• Lead medium sized, full-stack projects from technical design to delivery
• Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery)
• Own our , and exemplify them in your work
• Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career!

• 2+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications
• Proficient in a modern compiled programming language (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.)
• Willingness to learn JavaScript and/or TypeScript along with modern frontend technologies (React, Redux, etc.); prior experience a plus
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Is collaborative, empathetic, and intellectually honest

• In 1 month you’ll have shipped code into production
• In 3 months, you’ll have collaborated and delivered on a project with other engineers on the team
• In 6 months, you’ll have led the technical design, execution, and delivery of a project

This role can be based out of our New York City or Seattle offices or remotely in the United States.

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:

• Build a developer driven security program where there is tight integration with engineering artifacts, process, and tooling
• Use software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues
• Be security subject matter experts for our tech stack and products

• 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
• Educate the engineering org on security through CTFs, lunch-and-learns, and one-on-one mentorship

• 7 years of experience in application security, software security, or product security
• 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
• Communicate complex technical issues in a simple manner that builds trust with a variety of audiences
• A strong sense of ownership and delivery
• Can facilitate a conversation rather than dominate it
• Skilled at providing collaborative, actionable feedback, not just a list of flaws

• Working knowledge of one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with large scale environments

• Taking ownership of one or more security programs such as appsec, cloud, or detect/response
• Seeing projects through from conception to completion in order to deliver new services or capabilities for the team
• Establishing yourself as a go-to person for discussing security topics

This role can be based out of our East Coast offices or remotely in the United States.

This role specifically follows a weekend support model (Wednesday-Sunday, Saturday-Wednesday, or Friday-Tuesday, with the next two days as the week-off) and requires adherence to East Coast Hours (9am to 5pm EST). If you're passionate about being an Escalation Engineer working with our largest enterprise customers and are open to flexible, weekend-oriented scheduling, we encourage you to apply.

You should have 7+ years of relevant experience. We consider all candidates, with an eye for those who are self-taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.

It’s crucial for every candidate that they can check off all of these boxes:

• Strong team partnerships: Understanding of when and how to seek help from team members, skill in choosing from and/or synthesizing potentially conflicting perspectives or approaches, and ability to lead in collaborative efforts
• Work across multi-functional teams to resolve extremely impactful customer issues
• Deep and nuanced experience working with customers in escalated situations
• Great communication and account leadership skills, with a good organizational understanding of customers
• Enjoy getting deeply involved in and taking ownership of tricky cases, and driving them through to resolution
• Able to quickly understand and communicate about customer workloads, use cases, and resiliency criteria, including performance, availability, and scalability
• Comfortable reading and quickly navigating unfamiliar code, with coding/scripting proficiency in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, etc
• Strong systems engineering and troubleshooting experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, virtualization, clustering
• Storage engineering experience, including SAN, NAS, SSD, multi-pathing, caching, and tuning
• Experience building, maintaining, tuning, and troubleshooting sophisticated mission-critical production database systems
• Experience analyzing and pursuing issues holistically, from the client and application tiers, through the database, down to the storage, and any potentially unfamiliar corners in between
• Genuine desire to help people, and to increase their confidence and good will
• At your best when thinking on your feet, solving problems in real-time, and reducing pressure and anxiety through calm, authoritative technical leadership

• Experience managing large scale databases (e.g. RDBMS, NoSQL)
• Experience with authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, AD
• Experience using or managing MongoDB
• Experience using distributed version control systems, and in particular git
• Experience using any cloud services stack such as AWS, Azure or GCP

• In 3 months, have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
• In 6 months, be confident working frontline with our customers. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
• In 12 months, be handling highly technical and escalated cases independently, ensuring customers are successful and happy with MongoDB