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Paddle is a Merchant of Record platform serving over 6,000 software sellers globally, backed by KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North. The company simplifies payment infrastructure for digital product companies across 245 territories.
You will join the InfoSec and IT teams as a Staff Systems Engineer, leading technical initiatives at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and automation. This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring someone who thrives in a digital-first, collaborative environment and is passionate about building resilient, secure, and scalable systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and increase reliability, with focus on scalability and security
- Partnering with IT and InfoSec leadership to design, implement, and optimize integrations across business-critical systems
- Designing, building, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code for identity, network, and security tooling, including CI/CD pipelines
- Championing compliance with industry best practices and security standards (CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, PCI DSS)
- Supporting GRC initiatives on control implementation and audit evidence gathering
- Collaborating on Enterprise Technology roadmap projects with measurable impact
- Contributing to secure configuration and monitoring of AWS cloud infrastructure
- Developing and maintaining internal documentation and knowledge bases
- Mentoring and supporting engineers across InfoSec, IT, and the wider Engineering function
Paddle offers a digital-first work model with remote, hub-based, or hybrid options. Benefits include unlimited holidays, 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender, annual learning fund, and exposure to new challenges.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Extensive experience in systems engineering, site reliability engineering, security engineering, or software development with strong track record in both IT and security domains
- Comfortable working collaboratively across multiple business functions and operating autonomously on high-impact projects
- Strong knowledge of systems integration and automation with passion for reducing operational complexity
- Awareness of industry standards and frameworks (CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, PCI DSS) with experience implementing compliance controls
- Strong cloud security expertise including identity management, resource configuration, and monitoring; hands-on AWS experience with containerized workloads and cloud-native deployment paradigms highly desirable
- Familiarity with modern device management, IAM, and EDR solutions (Okta, Iru, Island, SentinelOne) and collaboration/networking tools (Google Workspace, Slack, Cloudflare Zero Trust)
- Software engineering background desirable, with experience in scripting or programming for workflow automation and system integration
- Hands-on experience writing and operating Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred) for identity, network, or cloud security systems
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence at all business levels
- Passion for security, automation, and operational excellence
