Nubank

Staff Security Engineer (IAM)

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4 hours ago
Durham, NC, USA +2 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$200k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define, communicate, and execute a multi-year IAM security strategy aligned with risk, regulatory, and business objectives.
  • Lead organization-wide authentication migrations across browser, operating-system login, CLI, and API surfaces.
  • Design and maintain enterprise identity infrastructure, PKI and X.509 certificate automation, mutual TLS, and credential management systems.
  • Create measurable organization-wide least-privilege access programs and accountability structures.
  • Design and maintain durable security engineering frameworks encompassing technical controls, policies, incentives, and assurance processes.
  • Lead technical incident response for identity and access security events and drive root-cause and recurrence-reduction improvements.
  • Design and facilitate large-scale IAM preparedness exercises involving engineering, operations, and executives.
  • Mentor senior engineers, lead innovative university projects, and participate in hiring and career decisions.
  • Serve as technical authority for Legal, Compliance, internal audit, and external regulators on identity and access matters.

Requirements

  • Solid professional experience in security engineering focused on identity, authentication, or access management.
  • A demonstrated record of leading complex, multi-year security programs through measurable outcomes and organizational or technical challenges.
  • Expert knowledge of OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, FIDO2/WebAuthn, mutual TLS, and PKI.
  • Ability to produce, review, and reason about production-quality code in at least one general-purpose programming language.
  • Experience modeling identity-related threats, assessing attacker techniques, and designing controls effective under adversarial conditions.
  • Experience communicating technical risk assessments and strategic recommendations to executives and regulators.
  • Preferred experience in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
  • Preferred hands-on experience administering or integrating enterprise Identity Providers at scale, especially Okta or Keycloak.
  • Preferred experience securing third-party, BPO, or partner environments without direct control of their infrastructure.
  • Preferred experience leading Zero Trust adoption across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Contributions to the security community through research, presentations, open-source tooling, or standards bodies are preferred.

Benefits

  • Equity opportunity, medical insurance, dental and vision insurance, life insurance and AD&D, extended maternity and paternity leave, learning and language programs, mental health and wellness assistance, 401K, Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account, work-from-home allowance, and relocation assistance where applicable.
  • Hybrid work model requiring office attendance 2–3 times per week.
  • The listed compensation range is 200–240k plus RSUs.

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About Nubank

10,000+ employees

Nubank is a digital banking platform for consumers and small businesses in Latin America, offering a no-fee credit card, accounts, payments, lending, and investments through Nu Asset Management. It monetizes via interchange, interest, and product fees within its app-based ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, it serves over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and is listed on the NYSE (ticker: NU).

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