Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Security

MongoDB

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Remote
Location
New York, NYAustin, TX
Salary
$126,000–$248,000 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
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MongoDB is a leading American software company that develops and provides commercial support for a popular, source-available document database. Designed to handle unstructured and structured data natively, its platform is purpose-built for modern cloud applications, analytics, and AI experiences.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Security

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Security joins the Infrastructure Security team within the Site Reliability Engineering organization. This role focuses on building security infrastructure, primitives, and reusable controls to protect MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will harden hosts and containerized workloads using Linux security mechanisms like AppArmor, SELinux, seccomp, and cgroups, alongside eBPF-based tooling such as Cilium and Tetragon. Responsibilities include securing multi-cloud infrastructure via RBAC, network policies, and admission controls, while building automated services for Cloud Security Posture Management and workload identity. You will write production-quality code in Go, Python, C, C++, or Rust and use Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to deploy security controls as code, ensuring secure platform runtime and CI/CD workflows.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Harden hosts and containerized workloads using Linux security mechanisms and eBPF-based tooling.
  • Secure multi-cloud container infrastructure using RBAC, network policies, and admission controls.
  • Build and manage automated services for CSPM, workload identity, and vulnerability management.
  • Write production-quality code and use Terraform to deploy security controls as code.
  • Build real-time security monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect anomalies.
  • Lead security initiatives from threat modeling and architectural design through to production rollout.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Security Engineering.
  • Strong coding skills in Go (Golang), Python, C, C++, or Rust.
  • Proven track record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platform infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for automated infrastructure provisioning.
  • Demonstrated experience owning infrastructure in Linux, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Practical experience with eBPF-based security tooling (Cilium, Falco, Tetragon) (preferred).
  • Direct ownership of Cloud Security and Workload Identity platforms (preferred).
  • Multi-cloud expertise spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP (preferred).
  • Production exposure to low-level Linux security mechanisms (seccomp, AppArmor, SELinux, cgroups) (preferred).

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