Program Manager, Public Sector Compliance

The MongoDB Compliance Team manages the strategy, execution, and maintenance of our global security certifications and regulatory requirements. We ensure that our cloud database products meet the rigorous security standards required by our customers in the most highly regulated industries worldwide.

We act as the primary interface between external auditors and our internal Product, Engineering, and Legal teams. Our goal is to translate complex regulatory requirements into scalable operational processes, maintaining a compliant and audit-ready posture across our diverse portfolio.

The Public Sector Program Manager role is an individual contributor position. In this role, you will be responsible for the lifecycle management of our most sensitive US government authorizations. This role acts as a lead for high-stakes workstreams involving FedRAMP High, DoD IL5+, CJIS, and ITAR. This role takes full ownership of complex federal assessments and leads the continuous monitoring strategy for our Atlas for Government product. This role is a key resource for interpreting NIST 800-53 controls and translating them into technical requirements for our engineering teams.

In this role, you aren’t just following a playbook; you’re writing it. You have the authority to lead federal assessment streams and represent MongoDB in high-level technical reviews. Your work directly secures the authorizations required to serve the Department of Defense and civilian agencies, protecting one of MongoDB’s most critical and high-growth revenue streams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Federal Authorizations: Drive end-to-end execution of federal assessments, serving as the primary lead for 3PAOs, agency sponsors, and the FedRAMP PMO
• Own Continuous Monitoring (ConMon): Manage the heartbeat of our federal posture, including vulnerability analysis, reporting, and the strategic maintenance of our POA&M
• Architect Security Artifacts: Lead the technical review and annual updates for core FedRAMP artifacts (SSP, ISCP, IRP) to ensure they reflect our evolving architecture
• Technical Advisory: Act as a consultant to Engineering and Ops, ensuring configurations like FIPS 140-2/3, boundary protection, and identity management align with DoD mandates
• Future-Proofing: Perform gap analyses for emerging mandates (e.g., CMMC, GovRAMP) and define the technical roadmap for remediation
• Strategic Support: Partner with the Federal Sales team to act as a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME), explaining our security posture to agency stakeholders and high-level reviewers

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 controls and how they are implemented within cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proven track record of managing federal audits from kickoff through to the issuance of an Authorization to Operate (ATO)
• Exceptional ability to explain complex security configurations to government auditors and internal technical teams
• Advanced proficiency in Jira and Confluence to track control performance data and manage large-scale federal documentation projects
• US Citizenship is required for this role

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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Req ID: 1273396370