Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Clusters Security
Senior Software Engineer on MongoDB's Atlas Encryption & Compliance team, building and operating encryption-at-rest and customer-managed-key (BYOK) systems for MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Day to day involves backend development in compiled languages, fleet-wide rollouts, on-call support, and helping customers with key-management issues.
- Compensation
- $126K–$248K / yr
- Location
- Austin; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Nashville; Palo Alto; Portland; San Francisco; Seattle; United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience
- Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, Go, etc.)
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Has led the launch of a new feature and maintained it in production
- Excellent communication skills
- Based in San Francisco with a hybrid or in-office working model
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud key management (KMS / Key Vault / Cloud KMS), IAM, private networking, or encryption in a production SaaS environment
- Eager to solve tough problems; curious, collaborative, and motivated
Full description
MongoDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB.
Atlas Clusters Security builds the security experience that Atlas customers depend on for mission-critical applications. Across the organization we own cluster networking, data encryption, database authentication, and related controls.
This role sits on the Encryption & Compliance team. We own Encryption at Rest with customer-managed keys (Bring Your Own Key) across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including private networking to customer key management systems. We also own the security and compliance work that lets Atlas serve highly regulated markets, including government offerings and internal credential management. You will design and operate these systems in production, lead fleet-wide rollouts, and partner with customers when encryption or key-management issues hit their clusters.
This role can be based remotely within the U.S. in the Pacific, Mountain, or Central time zones only.
What you’ll do
- 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
- Join an on-call rotation to support Atlas’ production services
We’re looking for someone who
- Has at least 5 years of professional software development experience
- Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, Go, etc.)
- Has experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Has led the launch of a new feature and maintained it in production
- Is eager to solve tough problems
- Has excellent communication skills
- Is curious, collaborative, and motivated
- Nice to have: experience with cloud key management (KMS / Key Vault / Cloud KMS), IAM, private networking, or encryption in a production SaaS environment