About the company
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy for Ingress Security, in collaboration with stakeholders across Server, Atlas, SRE, and Product Security
- Own the definition, planning, and execution of technical plans to deliver solutions to ambiguous, high-impact security and networking problems
- Design, implement, and operate production-ready security services in Rust, with a focus on security, correctness, performance, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with Engineering leadership and other Product & Technology teams on roadmaps to improve the security posture of MongoDB's ingress stack
- Advise across the team and organization on engineering complexity, risk, and inter-project dependencies
- Handle time-sensitive escalations and production incidents that require expert support from Ingress Security
- Diagnose test failures, identify bugs, performance regressions, and other defects in existing code, and fix them
- Interview candidates for software engineering positions, and work with Engineering leadership to cultivate the team's talent bench for long-term growth and success
- Develop and maintain expertise on relevant cutting-edge research in systems security, network security, and memory-safe systems programming from industry and academia
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building production-quality systems software with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
- Experience with large backend/compiled codebases and performance-sensitive software, preferably in Rust
- Bonus points for experience working hands-on in security-sensitive or networking-adjacent domains
- Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling. Bonus points for:
- Understanding of network protocols, TLS, and connection lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with security concepts such as attack surface reduction, input validation, memory safety, and defense-in-depth architectures.
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills for communicating to a wide variety of audiences ranging from junior engineers to executive stakeholder
- Strong mentorship skills, and excitement about leveling up your peers and teammates through coaching, feedback, and enablement
- Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture. Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability, security-critical systems
- Passion for learning new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering
Conditions
- Hybrid working model based in Dublin or Cork
- MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.