Engineering Director, Security

What you'll do

• Drive the secure-by-design mandate, leading the transition from reactive security to proactive architectural invariants. Your goal is to ensure that our core platform primitives - compute, storage, networking and identity - are built with inherent security properties that cannot be bypassed.
• Eliminate systemic risk by identifying fundamental, cross-cutting security problems and driving major engineering improvements to solve them at the root.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to embed a healthy security culture into Monzo’s product development process.
• Cultivate an engineering-first culture, fostering a culture where security engineers are, first and foremost, software engineers. You’ll ensure your teams are delivering high-leverage tools and frameworks that enable the data and engineering disciplines to move at the speed-of-thought, without compromising security.
• Manage a high-performing group of engineering leaders and senior individual contributors, nurturing a diverse organisation that thrives on solving the world’s most complex security challenges.
• Collaborate with engineering managers and engineering leaders to contribute to company-wide security best practices and standards.
• Form a close alliance with the CISO, CTO, and Product leaders to advise on the long-term health of the business, ensuring our security roadmap is aligned with our global mission.

Responsible for the engineering effectiveness and operational excellence of your teams, setting a high bar for performance, rigour, and inclusive leadership.

What we are looking for

• Architectural authority: You possess the technical depth to understand and challenge architectural decisions across the entire stack.