Senior Security Engineer - GRC (PCI)

The role

The GRC team enables Nubank to remain compliant with legal, regulatory, and internal requirements. This role focuses on ensuring compliance with regulations across countries and entities and holding PCI DSS certifications.

What you will do

• Provide operational support and act as a focal point for the assigned certification scope.
• Interpret certification requirements and execute and coordinate recurring tests.
• Register, manage, and track action plans from audit findings or identified gaps.
• Maintain a day-to-day interface with audited and external teams on control implementation, scope alignment, evidence collection, and deadline agreement.
• Propose and implement improvements in internal certification processes.
• Build and maintain partnerships with product, engineering and IT teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, IT and global teams to integrate compliance requirements into processes and systems.

Required qualifications

• Solid knowledge across cybersecurity domains and frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC2, DORA, NIST and similar standards.
• Prior experience supporting security certification or audit processes, including end-to-end management, scoping, and evidence collection.
• Experience with internal controls, compliance functions, and action plans follow up arising from audit findings or identified gaps.
• Experience evaluating and implementing controls in cloud environments (for example AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong analytical skills to interpret complex data and turn findings into actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills to translate complex technical concepts.
• Comfort using AI and automation as the default way of working, while validating outputs critically.
• Advanced English, written and spoken.

Nice to have

• Spanish is a plus.
• Certifications such as PCI ISA or PCIP, CISA, CISM or CISSP.
• Experience in a regulated fintech or financial services environment.
• Experience with multi country or multi entity certification programs.

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

Before you apply

• Recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools.
• Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback.

About the company

Nu serves more than 140 million customers with a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company uses proprietary technology and data at scale to power its digital platform.