Description
Paddle is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead and innovate at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and automation. This role involves driving the evolution of systems landscapes in both Enterprise IT and Product environments, empowering the global team to operate securely and efficiently.
Responsibilities:
- Lead initiatives to automate operational processes, reducing manual effort and increasing reliability, with a focus on scalability and security.
- Partner with IT and InfoSec leadership to design, implement, and optimise integrations across business-critical IT and security systems.
- Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code for identity, network, and security tooling, including CI/CD pipelines.
- Champion compliance with industry best practices and security standards, identifying areas for improvement.
- Support GRC initiatives on control implementation, audit evidence gathering, and efficiency improvements through automation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver projects aligned with the Enterprise Technology roadmap.
- Contribute to the secure configuration and monitoring of AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain internal documentation and knowledge bases.
- Mentor and support other engineers across InfoSec, IT, and the wider Engineering function.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in systems engineering, site reliability engineering, security engineering, or software development.
- Strong knowledge of systems integration and automation.
- Awareness of industry standards and frameworks (CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, PCI DSS).
- Cloud security expertise, including identity management, resource configuration, and monitoring.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure, containerised workloads, and cloud-native deployment paradigms.
- Familiarity with modern device management, IAM, and EDR solutions.
- Software engineering background (desirable).
- Experience writing and operating Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred).
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Annual learning fund
- Regular internal and external training
- Global hubs for collaboration and connection
- Flexible work arrangements