diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix
index 2ea255e4432d..141e8e0929d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ let version = "3.2.1";
       #"stemmer"  -- not nice to package yet (no versioning, no makefile, no shared libs).
       "yaml"
     ] ++ optionals stdenv.isLinux [ "tcmalloc" ];
+
     buildInputs = [
       sasl boost gperftools pcre snappy
       zlib libyamlcpp sasl openssl libpcap
@@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardening_pie = true;
+
   meta = {
     description = "a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database";
     homepage = http://www.mongodb.org;