# Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Infrastructure Security

**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $127k – $249k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Go, IAM, Cspm, Guardduty, Linux, Networking
**Posted:** 2026-03-26

> Senior or Staff Site Reliability Engineer leads design and implementation of cloud security solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP), builds automation for monitoring and alerting, and mentors SRE team. Requires 6+ years SRE/infra experience with security focus, IaC proficiency, and cloud expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

**Cloud Security Design and Implementation:**
- Help lead the design and deployment of security solutions for cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including network and compute security, identity management, and cloud security posture management (CSPM)

**Automation and Monitoring:**
- Build automated solutions for real-time security monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments. Leverage native cloud services and third-party tools for runtime security monitoring and anomaly detection

**Security Tooling:**
- Evaluate, implement, and manage cloud-native security tools and platforms for endpoint security, identity management (IAM), and CSPM

## Qualifications

**Experience:**
- 6+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering or similar role, with a strong focus on security work, with ideally 2+ years in a senior or staff engineering role

**Security Mindset:**
- A comprehensive understanding of all facets of cloud environment security, spanning from foundational OS networking layers to cloud provider configurations. Proven experience in leading projects within security-focused areas, such as runtime scanning, security observability, CSPM, and more

**Cloud Expertise:**
- Strong experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP), including expertise in IAM, VPC networking, security groups, and cloud security tools (e.g., GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail)

**Coding/Automation:**
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (we use Golang but are language agnostic when it comes to hiring) and experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) to automate security configurations and processes

**Linux and Networking:**
- Understanding of the underlying Linux and networking concepts, including low-level fundamentals, and how they work together in complex systems

**Communication and Leadership Skills:**
- Strong ability to explain complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical teams. Ability to lead a small technical team and ensure success both meeting the team goals as well as personal growth for all team members

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