Klarna

Cloud Security Lead Engineer

Klarna
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5 days ago
Milan, ItalyStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and run full-stack services that collect and serve cloud asset ownership, dependency, and risk data.
  • Translate security and compliance requirements into product features for engineering teams.
  • Build prioritization and remediation workflows and measure their impact on Klarna’s security posture.
  • Develop expertise in security and compliance rules and guide their implementation across systems and teams.
  • Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and platform teams on priorities and delivery.
  • Communicate technical risks, priorities, and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Experience building and owning production software, including describing systems delivered and operated.
  • Strong AWS knowledge sufficient to review microservice architectures for security vulnerabilities.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, asset inventories, or resource dependency mapping.
  • A security-first approach involving risk measurement, prioritization, and clear explanation.
  • Experience building scalable full-stack web applications.
  • Experience delivering work with cross-functional stakeholders in areas such as engineering, security, or compliance.
  • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, PostgreSQL, and Terraform, or the ability to learn them quickly.
  • Bonus: experience with commercial cybersecurity or asset management platforms.
  • Bonus: experience running security and compliance audits, collecting evidence, and producing reports.

Benefits

  • The position is based in Klarna’s Milan office, with most teams currently meeting in person 2–3 days per week; this can vary by team and change over time.
  • Applicants should provide a CV in English.
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About Klarna

1,001-5,000 employees

Klarna is a privately held fintech that provides buy now, pay later financing, checkout, and a consumer shopping app for e-commerce and retail. It monetizes through merchant fees, interchange, and interest and fees on financing, while offering marketing and customer acquisition tools to merchants. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, it operates across Europe and North America.

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