Senior Software Engineer (SRE), Infrastructure Security
MongoDB
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This role pays less than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $146,587–$216,287 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $187k versus about $181k for comparable roles.
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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.
MongoDB currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $110,500–$255,000 across 40 roles with salary data.
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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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