Security Compliance Engineer - Mexico

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Our challenges:

Technology is not a sector of our business: it's intrinsic to every area at Nubank. We encourage everyone to challenge the status quo. There's no "innovation team" - we hire innovative people for all our positions and encourage them to constantly question decisions to keep finding better ways to do something. Our business is experiencing hyper growth in several dimensions: number of customers, products, international markets and employees., and our engineering team must match that demand.

As we grow, we need to:

• Relentlessly pursue, indicate and contribute to eradicate threats across complex environments.

• Report and help solving incidents at scale

• Work in regulated environments aligning with all the requirements

• Communicate clearly with external and internal stakeholders such as regulators, managers, etc..,

• Build solutions that enable faster and more effective incident response.

The Security Compliance Engineer will be responsible for:

• Communicating fluently with diverse global teams, financial institutions and regulators, in english and spanish.

• Working with regulated institutions in Mexico for authorization approvals

• Creating policies and procedures for security governance and compliance for Mexico.

• Understanding root causes of issues and problems, collaborating with others to work on solutions.

• Creating strong relationships with diverse teams, by coordinating communication between different audiences, teams and stakeholders

What we are looking for:

• An ability to thrive in engineering environments, interacting with technical teams and being able to jump into technical conversations at least with a theoretical knowledge.

• Experience working in banking regulated institutions and environments, interacting with external and internal stakeholders with experience with the CUB and secondary rules.

• Experience working with Compliance and Legal Teams.

• Knowledge in ISO, PCI, NIST, Frameworks

• Experience working with regulatory requirements (SPEI AppendixM and CUB)

• Experience with CNBV or (CUB) Circular Unica Bancaria - information security requirements for Financial Institutions.

• General knowledge in databases and applications

• General knowledge of cloud infrastructure (private or public), microservices and distributed environments.

• Proficiency in English and Spanish.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building scripts or with any programming language


• Understanding of infrastructure monitoring tools like Kibana or Prometheus


• Experience with tools for ticketing, whiteboarding, collaboration dashboarding, and google docs suites.


• Experience with SPEI or CNBV audits.


• Background as SPEI InfoSec Officer or any compliance related experience with the CUB or Banking Institutions.


• Experience leading certifications for ISO or PCI for a regulated institution in Mexico


• Interest in working with regulators at a technical and business level.


• Natural interest in security operations, coordinating actions with several stakeholders and teams like incident response, defensive security, etc.. in large projects


• Experience collaborating in global projects, with distributed infosec teams.

Our Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank


• Extended maternity and paternity leaves


• Health and life insurance


• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program


• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses


• NuLanguage - Our language learning program


• Holiday Bonus ("Aguinaldo") of 30 days of pay per year


• 17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus


• Gym partnership

Our Nu Way of Working

Our work model is hybrid and has cycles that can be from two to three months according to the business of ​​expertise. For every eight or twelve weeks of remote work, one will be at the office. Check more information here.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.