Principal Security Engineer
End-to-End Security Posture, Architecture & Automation Leadership
Location: Bangalore (Work From Office)
Reports to: CISO

Cashfree Payments manages mission-critical payment and API infrastructure under RBI and
PCI-DSS compliance. We require uncompromising security and resilience to handle
high-volume financial transactions. We are building an automation-first, intelligence-driven
security organization designed to scale with business growth without linear headcount
expansion.

Role Summary
The Principal Security Engineer owns the security engineering strategy across application, cloud, and
detection. This role partners closely with Engineering, Platform, and GRC teams, with the
authority to define security standards, guardrails, and architectural baselines.
This is an engineering-driven security leadership position, not a ticket-triage or
compliance reporting role.
We seek a highly autonomous, hands-on security engineer to own and elevate the
organization’s security posture end-to-end. This is a builder’s role focused on designing scalable
systems.





The role requires someone who:
● Operates independently, converting ambiguity into structured execution.
● Defines measurable security KPIs and delivers sustained improvement.
● Engineers scalable automation across the security lifecycle.
● Leads technical decision-making and mentors team members.
● Leverages AI and emerging technologies to amplify security impact.

Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Security Posture & Risk Engineering
● Define and track measurable KPIs (risk reduction, MTTR).
● Design and operationalize vulnerability lifecycle management.
● Translate RBI and PCI-DSS expectations into automated technical controls and build
engineering-driven audit readiness frameworks.
● Identify and eliminate systemic security weaknesses.

Secure Architecture & Cloud Security Engineering
● Architect and secure multi-account AWS environments, hardening Kubernetes (EKS).
Implement Zero Trust princ

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