Senior Manager, Product Security Engineering

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.

Who You Are

With a strong security engineering management background, you’re looking for a role that gives you the freedom to increase MongoDB’s resonance with customers by strengthening our products. You’re passionate about leading security engineers to solve hard security engineering problems, while putting a strong emphasis on customer experience. You take ownership and empower your team to collaborate with different areas to innovate and implement pragmatic solutions.

Who We Are

The MongoDB 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 several products including the MongoDB Atlas Cloud, Ops Manager, Kubernetes Operator, and the MongoDB Server (Community and Enterprise editions).

The MongoDB Security organization works with software engineers to design, implement, and operate systems in a manner that protects customer and MongoDB data. It is a multidisciplinary organization that covers product, software, cloud, infrastructure, and operational security concerns.  Our organization…

• Defines and drives an engaging, exciting security strategy for MongoDB and our customers
• Builds a developer driven security program where there is tight integration with engineering artifacts, process, and tooling
• Uses software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues
• Are the security subject matter experts for our tech stack and products

The ideal candidate will have...

• At least 4 years as a people leader within a security domain
• At least 9 years of progressive hands on experience in security, preferably across cloud security and security engineering domains
• An understanding of product security and modern product development lifecycles
• A proven track record of successfully growing and evolving teams of high performing security practitioners
• Superb written and verbal communication, time management skills, and a growth mindset
• A strong understanding of agile-like methodologies and a demonstrated ability to effectively manage team capacity and execution
• A passion for building technical and leadership skills in others through coaching, mentoring, and career development planning
• A strong commitment to building and fostering a diverse and supportive culture that values customer obsession, continuous improvement, and high standards
• A deep sense of ownership, accountability, and pride

Nice to Haves

• Experience with either high-scale database or cloud computing environments
• Working knowledge of one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience scaling security programs within B2B SaaS organizations

In this role, you will...

• Lead a globally distributed engineering team by creating a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and aligning team execution to strategy and vision
• You will take ownership, define strategy, and drive improvement for parts of our program such as fuzzing, threat modeling, secrets management, container security, vulnerability management, and other areas of application and product security
• Provide feedback on the feasibility, functionality, design, and timeline of new security engineering proposals
• Serve as a resource for other engineering teams as they take personal ownership for the security of the systems they own
• Hire, mentor and grow strong, high-performing security engineers across multiple domains

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