MongoDB
Senior Software Engineer (SRE), Infrastructure Security
$126K–$248K
Austin +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Austin
New York City
United States
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Security Engineering.
About the job
Builds and operates automated security infrastructure and controls that protect MongoDB Atlas across cloud platforms, containers, and production systems.
What you'll do
- Harden Linux hosts and container workloads, and secure multi-cloud infrastructure using policies, controls, and runtime threat detection.
- Build automated security services and implement security controls as code using production-quality software and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Develop real-time security monitoring, lead initiatives from threat modeling through rollout, and maintain production reliability.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Security Engineering.
- Strong coding skills in Go (Golang), Python, C, C++, or Rust; experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platform infrastructure.
- Hands-on Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible experience for automated infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience owning infrastructure in Linux, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Nice to have
- Practical experience with eBPF-based security tooling (Cilium, Falco, Tetragon), or production exposure to low-level Linux security mechanisms.
- Direct ownership of Cloud Security and Workload Identity platforms; multi-cloud expertise spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Pay
$126,000 — $248,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
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