Senior Product Security Engineer, Assessments

Who You Are You are a seasoned security professional with a deep passion for uncovering vulnerabilities and improving product security through technical assessments and hands-on penetration testing. You pride yourself on being able to execute sophisticated security tests, identify issues, and implement pragmatic solutions, all while keeping the customer experience central. You enjoy working collaboratively across teams and have the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, approachable manner.

Who We Are The MongoDB Product Security organization is a diverse collection of individuals working together to scale MongoDB’s security, both security of the products themselves and the security features we offer to customers. The team is responsible for assessing the security of our products including MongoDB Atlas Cloud, Ops Manager, Kubernetes Operator, and the MongoDB Server (Community and Enterprise editions).

Our team provides assurance that new MongoDB products and features are built to meet our customers’ high security needs through rigorous threat modeling, code analysis, and penetration testing.

The MongoDB Product Security organization works with software engineers to design, implement, and operate systems in a manner that protects our customers and their data. It is a multidisciplinary team that covers product, software, cloud, infrastructure, and operational security concerns.

The Product Security team:

Conducts rigorous penetration testing and security assessments of MongoDB products

Develops and deploys advanced AI tooling and modern automation to enhance assessment efficiency and workflows

Works closely with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for security best practices and remediate vulnerabilities

Builds a developer-driven security program where there is tight integration between engineering artifacts, process, and tooling

Uses software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues

Role Responsibilities As a Product Security Engineer specializing in security assessments, your responsibilities will include:

Leading the evolution of our internal security and assessment processes by leveraging AI-based analysis to enhance threat modeling, penetration testing workflows, and assessment efficiency

Conducting deep-dive penetration tests and hands-on security assessments of MongoDB products, including architecture reviews, threat modeling, static/dynamic code analysis, and vulnerability exploit verification

Researching, prototyping, and executing new attack vectors and techniques to strengthen our defensive measures

Collaborating closely with engineering teams to advocate security best practices and to remediate identified vulnerabilities

Recommending secure coding patterns, container security measures, and secrets management strategies to strengthen our products

Partnering with product development teams to ensure secure delivery across cloud environments, applications, and systems

Coordinating closely with the red team and detection functions and processes to address potential security incidents or implement new defensive or monitoring capabilities

Requirements7+ years of experience in application security, product security or penetration testing roles, including manual and automated approaches

Proven expertise in product security assessment techniques such as threat modeling, penetration testing, red teaming, and secure code reviews

Some programming and scripting skills, with familiarity in one or more languages such as Python or Golang Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Experience leading threat modeling workshops and discussing security issues with engineers

Comfortable explaining and communicating…