Head of Security

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🔥 16 hours ago

🇦🇷 Argentina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Airtm

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🛍️ eCommerce

Fintech • Banking • eCommerce

Airtm is the most connected digital dollar wallet in the world and a strategic partner for digital entrepreneurs. It works to ensure financial growth by enabling users to earn, send, spend, and protect their money anywhere and anytime. The company's purpose is to unleash the potential of digital entrepreneurs by connecting their talent with the global market, eliminating borders, and ensuring their financial freedom quickly and with fair fees.

📋 Description

• Define and own a risk-based security strategy for Airtm’s financial platform • Prioritize security investment by threat and business impact and report posture to executive leadership and the board • Own detection, response, and recovery for security incidents • Maintain runbooks, lead incidents and post-incident reviews, and coordinate with forensics, legal, and communications • Embed security into the SDLC through threat modeling, secure design reviews, SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and secure coding standards • Partner with Infrastructure to harden AWS, Kubernetes, networking, and CI/CD pipelines • Own IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, and security in Terraform and GitOps workflows • Build detection and alerting across application, infrastructure, and access logs • Own security for key management, wallet and custody operations, and blockchain integrations • Collaborate with Product and Risk teams on account takeover, abuse, and transaction-level controls • Define guardrails for AI coding tools, AI agents, and LLM pipelines • Own the security compliance program, audits, and customer and partner security questionnaires • Run vendor risk assessments and security due diligence • Establish vulnerability remediation SLAs and keep remediation moving across teams • Hire, grow, and lead security engineers and build a security champions network • Participate in and help shape the security escalation path for production incidents

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in information or application security, including 3+ years leading security teams or functions • Demonstrated experience leading incident response for real, high-stakes incidents, including coordination with external forensics and counsel • Strong knowledge of AWS security and Kubernetes security, including IAM, network segmentation, RBAC, secrets management, container and image security • Hands-on experience with application security in a microservices environment: threat modeling, secure code review, and dependency and supply-chain risk • Experience building detection and monitoring capabilities, including SIEM, log analysis, alerting, and Datadog or similar • Experience owning or leading a compliance program such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI-DSS, including audit cycles • Ability to read and review TypeScript/Node.js code and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform • Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and software supply chains • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot for security work • Clear point of view on risks of AI-generated code and agentic systems • Strong communication skills for explaining risk to engineers, executives, regulators, and customers and writing policies and runbooks • Sound judgment under pressure and ability to make fast, defensible calls with incomplete information