Principal Security Engineer

Job Summary
This role sits at the intersection of cloud-native engineering and security, operating across AWS in a data-intensive, high-throughput payments environment. You will drive deep architecture, engineering, and automation across Cloud Infrastructure and Product Engineering teams — owning security architecture, security engineering, and the security observability layer.
You will actively partner across product and infrastructure layers to uplift the cyber resilience of Tazapay's platform, while product-managing security tooling and building security observability capabilities on top of internal product offerings. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role that demands equal parts technical depth and cross-functional leadership.

Location: Bangalore
Reporting To: CISO

Key Responsibilities

Architecture
- Actively participate in and contribute to the Architecture Review, providing security-informed, opinionated guidance on technology choices across software engineering and infrastructure patterns.




- Author and champion RFC-style technical documents, architectural decision records (ADRs), and implementation guides for adoption by product and infrastructure engineering teams.
- Shape Tazapay's API strategy with strong ownership over Security, Privacy, and Governance pillars — including API authentication standards, rate limiting, and threat modeling for API surfaces.
- Collaborate closely with architecture, product management, product engineering, and GRC teams in a hands-on workplace to design, build, and operate products securely.
- Work independently with developers, system engineers, and product managers to ensure security and privacy-first design and development reviews across all product and infrastructure initiatives.
- Own and maintain a living security design mandate — documenting architectural standards, security controls, and implementation patterns — and drive adoption across product and infrastructure groups.
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📌 Principal Security Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tazapay
📍 Bengaluru