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About the role
Paystack is seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer to own the security foundation of our shared cloud platform. This role is not about oversight or policy—it's about building the engineering layer that makes our platform trustworthy by design. You will own Paystack's AWS organization end-to-end, including architecture, account structure, and organization-wide controls that govern how every team operates. Your decisions have company-wide reach and direct consequences for customers, merchants, and regulatory standing across multiple markets. You will inherit a functioning platform, take full ownership, and build the Platform Security function, setting technical direction and standards.
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Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the security architecture and organisation-wide controls across Paystack’s multi-account AWS environment.
- Design scalable identity and access-management systems, including secure, self-service ways for engineering teams to request and manage access.
- Establish secure-by-default cloud standards and build automated controls that help engineering teams meet them.
- Partner closely with DevOps and engineering teams, bringing security into infrastructure decisions from the outset.
- Strengthen security across secrets management, network controls, containers and the infrastructure supply chain.
- Ensure security logs and signals are reliably generated, structured and delivered to the Security Operations team.
- Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into practical infrastructure controls and automated audit evidence.
- Build production-quality tooling and automation that solve recurring cloud security problems.
- Anticipate emerging platform risks and evolve Paystack’s controls as its products, markets and infrastructure grow.
- Set the technical direction and standards for Platform Security, making secure practices straightforward for engineering teams to adopt.
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