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 Tazapays 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 Tazapays API strategy with robust 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 environment 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.
- Independently re

📌 Principal Security Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tazapay
📍 Bengaluru