Senior Engineering Manager, Security

Summary

Join Primer, the world's first unified payment infrastructure, as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the evolution of its security function. You will define and execute a long-term security strategy, lead and grow a security engineering team, own vendor and workforce security processes, collaborate on data privacy and regulatory compliance, and drive readiness for security certifications. The ideal candidate possesses proven leadership in scaling security functions within fast-growing, regulated industries, ideally with payments or eCommerce experience. A strong grasp of cloud infrastructure security (preferably AWS) and experience hiring and growing teams are essential. Primer offers a remote-first work environment with competitive benefits, including uncapped holiday, co-working space access, generous learning budget, and medical insurance.

Requirements

• Proven leadership in scaling security functions within fast-growing, regulated industries
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and change, managing stakeholders inc. c-suite
• Hands-on experience with modern security standards and frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR), with foresight into ISO 27001 readiness
• A background in IT security management, with the ability to own workforce, device, and vendor risk processes
• Strong grasp of cloud infrastructure security (preferably AWS) and how to operationalise it in production environments
• Strategic mindset with the ability to elevate a security team from great to world-class
• Experience hiring and growing teams a must

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing a long-term security strategy that goes beyond foundational protections, targeting enterprise-grade resilience
• Leading and growing a high-impact security engineering team, embedding security into engineering, product and infrastructure at scale
• Owning end-to-end vendor and workforce security processes, including onboarding, offboarding, and software procurement
• Collaborating across teams to manage risks related to data privacy, regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR), and IT operations
• Driving readiness for security certifications such as future ISO 27001 compliance, as well as maintaining existing frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR etc.)
• Acting as the key decision-maker for infrastructure security tooling and cloud security practices, ideally with deep AWS experience

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally experience or understanding of payments or eCommerce

Benefits

• We are fully remote
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access
• Workations & company retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• ��500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Medical insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits ( depending on location)