Paxos · 18 hours ago
Engineering Manager, Cloud Security
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$240K/yr - $276K/yr
8+ years expPaxos is on a mission to rebuild the financial infrastructure to be more inclusive and efficient. The Engineering Manager, Cloud Security will lead a team of security engineers to secure AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, design Zero Trust architectures, and ensure the security posture of the platforms as the company scales.
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Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop a team of cloud security engineers, including setting clear goals, providing ongoing feedback, and running performance reviews
Own the security posture of our AWS and Kubernetes platforms, including multi-account AWS Organizations (SCPs, IAM, VPCs) and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
Drive the design and implementation of Zero Trust architectures, including identity-based perimeters, mTLS, network segmentation, and least-privilege access controls
Partner with Platform, SRE, and Product Engineering teams to embed security into infrastructure roadmaps, CI/CD pipelines, and service architectures
Establish and scale infrastructure as code and policy as code practices (e.g., Terraform/CDK, OPA/Kyverno) to build automated guardrails and reduce manual configuration
Act as Incident Commander for high-severity security incidents and vulnerabilities (e.g., Log4j-style events), coordinating technical response, stakeholder communication, and post-incident reviews
Own the security engineering roadmap for cloud and container security, balancing short-term risk reduction with long-term strategic investments
Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to maintain and improve our security posture relative to frameworks like SOC2 and ISO, and to support customer and regulator inquiries
Partner with leadership on headcount planning, hiring, and organizational design to ensure the Cloud Security team scales with the business
Champion a culture of security across Paxos through education, documentation, and close collaboration, helping teams ship secure systems quickly and confidently
Qualification
Required
8+ years of engineering experience (software, infrastructure, or security), including time as an individual contributor security engineer working on cloud or application security
At least 2–3 years of experience as an engineering manager, leading and developing security or infrastructure teams
Proven experience securing production AWS environments at scale, including AWS Organizations, IAM, SCPs, VPC design, Transit Gateways, WAFs, and logging/monitoring
Hands-on experience securing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments (e.g., network policies, admission controllers, service mesh, secrets management, runtime hardening)
Strong fluency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK); you view infrastructure as software and are comfortable driving code reviews, testing, and automation for infra changes
Deep understanding of security architecture concepts, including Zero Trust, mTLS, identity-based perimeters, least privilege, and cloud hardening best practices
Demonstrated experience leading incident response as an Incident Commander for major vulnerabilities or breaches, including coordinating cross-functional teams under pressure
Proficiency in headcount planning, performance reviews, and mentorship, with a clear and thoughtful leadership philosophy you can articulate with examples
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex security risks and trade-offs to both deeply technical engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Company
Paxos
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$543.48MKey Investors
MercadoLibreAlameda ResearchOak HC/FT
2022-01-20Corporate Round
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $5M
2021-04-29Series D· $300M
Leadership Team
Charles Cascarilla
CEO and Co-Founder
Richmond Teo
Co-Founder & CEO Asia
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