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Banks use Pliant's Card & Spend OS, the customer-facing interface, on their own infrastructure to run card programs.\nFounded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant serves 5,000+ businesses and 40+ partners across Europe and the United States. A principal member of Visa and Mastercard, Pliant issues commercial cards in 13 currencies across 32 countries - under its own European e-money license and with licensed partners in the UK and US.\nLearn more atwww.getpliant.com\nABOUT THE ROLE\nPliant builds corporate payment infrastructure, and the security team's job is to keep that infrastructure secure and compliant without slowing down the engineers building on it. This is the first Engineering Manager role for a team of two security engineers already covering DevSecOps, cloud security, and compliance today. You'll take over the people side while shaping where the function goes next, staying technical enough to drive lower-priority initiatives yourself, participate in reviews, and step in during incidents when the team needs you.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nOwn the security foundations the rest of engineering builds on: secure-by-default Terraform and Docker modules, hardened images for ECS and EKS workloads, and guardrails built into the developer platform rather than added afterwards.\n\nDrive cloud security posture day to day: remediating findings from Wiz, keeping IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty tuned as Pliant scales, and ensuring the alerts that fire are ones people should actually act on.\n\nAutomate compliance evidence collection for PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DORA so audits stop being a scramble.\n\nRun vulnerability management and incident response end to end: triage, SLAs, remediation, and post-mortems.\n\nBuild the application security practice through threat modeling, architecture reviews, and secure coding guidance that product teams actually use.\n\nUse and build AI-native security tooling for VulnOps, red-teaming, and incident response as the threat landscape evolves.\n\nGrow the team: two engineers are in place today, and who you hire next sets the technical bar for security at Pliant for a long time.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BRING\nHands-on background in DevSecOps or cloud security, ideally with real ownership of an AWS environment. IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and SCPs are things you have worked with directly.\n\nProficiency in Terraform, including the ability to write secure, reusable modules from scratch.\n\nExperience securing containerized workloads (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes), including hardened base images and admission controllers.\n\nScripting ability in Python, Bash, or TypeScript sufficient to automate compliance checks and triage workflows rather than doing them by hand each quarter.\n\nWorking knowledge of PCI DSS, SOC 2, and/or ISO 27001, plus experience running vulnerability management at scale or leading incident response for something that mattered.\n\nExperience managing engineers or leading technical work where people trusted your calls before you had the title, including at least one hiring decision worth learning from.\n\nAbility to explain a security risk clearly to non-security audiences without losing accuracy.\n\nA point of view on AI as an attacker's tool and how vulnerability response needs to change as discovery-to-exploitation windows keep shrinking.\n\nComfort with AI-assisted development tools, and the same rigour reviewing AI-generated PRs as any other.\n\nTHE FIRST YEAR\nThe first few months are mostly absorbing what is already running and meeting the people who depend on it: Platform Core, SRE, and the product teams who will come to you when something looks like a security question. You will also be hiring, as Pliant is looking for a third Security Engineer to onboard on the team. By mid-year, you have a security roadmap that is not just a backlog of audit findings, and the team has grown past its current two engineers. By year one, the security posture is something you can describe in metrics rather than vibes, and compliance evidence for the next audit is being collected automatically rather than assembled by hand the week before.\nSTACK\nTerraform, Spacelift, AWS (including a dedicated PCI-scoped account), Datadog, Wiz. We're mid-migration from ECS to Kubernetes, so container security work spans both.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nThe opportunity to work in a growing team with big responsibilities that thrives on a strong exchange of knowledge and excellence\n\nAttractive remuneration\n\nYour choice of preferred OS, Windows or Mac\n\nFlat hierarchy and transparent communication in a relaxed, professional atmosphere\n\nOpportunity to develop your talent in a dynamic team with ambitious goals\n\nFlexibility and possibility to work remotely\n\nPliant Card with monthly credit to explore the product and enjoy food with colleagues\n\nPliant is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and abilities, and are committed to an inclusive hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know.\nAt Pliant we use the Ashby AI Criteria to assist with looking over resumes against our job qualifications for this role. 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