Principal Security Engineer
BengaluruFull-time8–14 yrsPosted 5 months ago
Leadership cybersecurity role at Cashfree Payments in Bengaluru. Needs 8+ years and a B.Tech or B.E..
About the role
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 orcompliance reporting role.
What you'll do
- 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
What you need
- Vulnerability assessment
- SIEM
- Cloud security
- IAM
- Python
- Kubernetes
Good to have
- Terraform
- AWS
- LLMs
- CI/CD
- Go
- Microservices