MongoDB
Principal Security Engineer
$203K–$399K
New York City +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- New York City
Seattle
United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 12+ years; security engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline, including senior individual-contributor or technical-lead experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Serves as a senior hands-on security technical leader, guiding architecture and risk decisions, coordinating high-stakes security work, and building a community of senior security engineers.
What you'll do
- Assess security risks across MongoDB product architecture and guide security and architecture decisions.
- Lead cross-functional engagements such as M&A security due diligence and partner risk assessments.
- Connect and mentor senior security engineers across security operations, product security, and enterprise security.
What they ask 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 technical expertise in security and working depth across compute, network, and storage architecture.
- Experience influencing cross-functional decisions and owning ambiguous, deadline-driven work.
Nice to have
- Direct experience leading M&A security due diligence or partner/vendor risk assessments.
- Experience across multiple technology layers or growing technical communities of practice.
Pay
$203,000 — $399,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
compute, network, storage
AI focus
Collaborate on identity and permission models for a new autonomous agent platform and advance AI-enabled automated vulnerability detection, reproduction, and remediation.
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