Security Engineering Manager (Cloud Security)
About Nu
Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.
Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.
Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.
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About the Team
Cloud Security defines and operates the cloud security controls that underpin Nubank's 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 Security's strategy into structured execution, and provide the close technical leadership of this squad's seniority and scope demand. This is a dedicated leadership seat - your full focus is one squad and its outcomes.
What You’ll 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 team's composition and skills against Nubank's objectives.
Drive technical decisions and engineering excellence
Lead and enable technical decisions on the squad's 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 squad's products: code quality, test coverage, observability, and technical-debt management.
Set the team's 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 squad's 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 squad's contribution to OKRs, monthly business reviews, and the Area business board.
Operate with accountability
Hold accountability for the squad's financials within ITSec's 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 you'll 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 Nubank's regulatory and international expansion programs.
A squad that builds its own products in-house - you'll 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 America's 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 https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence-enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.