Security Engineering Manager (Cloud Security) BR 2026

About Us

Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world with more than 122 million customers across Brazil Mexico and Colombia. Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people we are redefining financial services in Latin America and this is still just the beginning of the purple future were building.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU) we combine proprietary technology data intelligence and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple accessible and human.

Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Worlds Best Bank. Visit our institutional page


About the Team

Cloud Security defines and operates the cloud security controls that underpin Nubanks growth globally and across multiple cloud providers. The team owns the preventive guardrails configuration baselines and posture-detection mechanisms that allow Nubank to launch in new markets sustain regulatory commitments with international banking regulators and adopt AI safely at the cloud layer.

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager II to lead a highly senior team of software engineers translate Foundation Securitys strategy into structured execution and provide the close technical leadership of this squads seniority and scope demand. This is a dedicated leadership seat your full focus is one squad and its outcomes.

What Youll Be Responsible For

Lead the squad

• Set clear expectations give frequent feedback and run career conversations with senior ICs.
• Hire and onboard talent partnering with P&C and the Foundation Security hiring pipeline.
• Mediate conflicts address low performance promptly and impartially and create a safe space for difficult conversations.
• Manage team engagement with data; plan the teams composition and skills against Nubanks objectives.

Drive technical decisions and engineering excellence

• Lead and enable technical decisions on the squads architecture with a strong understanding of multi-cloud patterns and trade-offs (AWS GCP IaC Kubernetes event-driven controls).
• Be accountable for the technical health of the squads products: code quality test coverage observability and technical-debt management.
• Set the teams quality bar; oversee root cause analysis for complex incidents and lead phased rollouts that reduce blast radius.
• Sponsor architectural decisions for squad-level projects and communicate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Translate strategy into execution

• Cascade Foundation Security and ITSec strategy into the squads roadmap balancing regulatory commitments across international markets AI enablement and ongoing reduction of cloud configuration risk.
• Manage small-to-moderate initiatives that span multiple stakeholders (Infrastructure peers infrastructure teams product engineering compliance GRC procurement).
• Own the squads contribution to OKRs monthly business reviews and the Area business board.

Operate with accountability

• Hold accountability for the squads financials within ITSecs guidelines (tooling renewals headcount contracts).
• Operate in compliance with corporate policies and risk-management processes.
• Lead and mentor others within the squad; contribute to hiring panels across Foundation Security.

We Are Looking for a Person Who Has

Must-have

• Engineering Manager experience leading a software/security squad or strong tech-lead/staff-level background with clear intent and readiness to move into people management.
• Solid hands-on software engineering background comfortable reading and reviewing code in at least one of Golang Clojure or Python writing Shell/Python scripts for automation and reviewing IaC (Terraform Pulumi).
• Working knowledge of AWS at scale (multi-account Organizations IAM networking Security Hub Config). Familiarity with GCP is a strong plus.
• Comfort designing and governing preventive controls (SCPs Organization Policies admission controllers) and remediation pipelines.
• Track record of hiring onboarding and developing engineers; experience (or strong appetite) for running performance and career conversations.
• Strong written and spoken communication in English; ability to make complex trade-offs clear to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-have

• Prior experience building and shipping software products (not only operating off-the-shelf security tools) internal platforms services CLIs integrations APIs.
• Prior exposure to CSPM/CNAPP platforms (any major vendor).
• Experience supporting regulatory or compliance workstreams (PCI ISO 27001 banking regulators).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes runtime security event-streaming platforms and large-scale data pipelines.
• Experience embedding security into AI/ML infrastructure.
• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants (Cursor Claude Code GitHub Copilot or similar) to accelerate engineering work and team productivity.

Tech stack youll be exposed to

• AWS GCP Terraform Pulumi CloudFormation Kubernetes Kafka Golang Clojure Python shell scripting CSPM/CNAPP platforms internal data pipelines Looker/BigQuery Jira. AI coding assistants are part of our daily engineering workflow.

What we offer

• A dedicated leadership seat in a squad with very high seniority and very high strategic relevance.
• Direct line of sight to Nubanks regulatory and international expansion programs.
• A squad that builds its own products in-house youll lead software engineers shipping real software not coordinating ticket queues.
• A peer group of EMs across Foundation Security (Runtime Infrastructure Data) and a senior management layer that operates with full financial and strategic accountability.
• Exposure to multi-country multi-cloud problems at the scale of Latin Americas largest digital bank.

Our Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
• Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
• NuCare Psychological Financial and Legal Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• NuLanguage Language Course Program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• Extended Parental Leave
• Daycare Allowance
• Parental Consultancy
• Work-from-home Allowance
• Gym Partnerships
• 30 days of paid vacation
  
  

Work Model for this Role

Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details visit Experience:

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