Principal Security Engineer - InfoSec GRC

Location Details

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC.

Join our team

The Governance, Risk, and Compliance team helps GoDaddy identify, assess, and address security risk across the business. We lead regulatory and compliance audits, manage risk acceptances and exception workflows, support third-party risk activities, and define security standards and policies that guide teams across the company. This role is a strong fit for someone who wants to build a durable audit and controls program from the ground up, influence security strategy, and work directly with senior leaders on risk-based decision-making. The ideal candidate will gain the opportunity to shape a long-term security governance initiative, partner broadly across engineering and security teams, and drive meaningful improvements in how GoDaddy manages risk and audit readiness.

What you'll get to do...

• Support a team of GRC compliance specialists in helping to build and manage a unified security controls framework that supports regulatory and industry compliance requirements
• Perform targeted gap assessments across business units to support new regulatory frameworks
• Partner with engineering, product, legal, and other security teams to identify control gaps, evaluate compensating controls, and reduce risk
• Support internal and external audits across frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other applicable regulations
• Develop reporting and present security risks, audit status, and remediation priorities to senior leadership, including the Chief Information Security Officer
• Drive scalable risk-based processes for exception management, risk acceptance workflows, and broader governance initiatives
• Remove roadblocks across the team in addition to providing training and mentoring support across the team and within the larger information security organization.

Your experience should include...

• 10+ years of professional experience in information security, information technology, information technology audit, or related fields
• 6+ years of professional experience managing information security programs, audits, or formal assessment activities
• Experience building unified security controls frameworks across multiple compliance and regulatory standards
• Experience managing or performing audits using frameworks such as PCI DSS, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, and SOC 2
• Experience assessing cloud environments such as AWS and applying core security engineering concepts such as threat modeling, architecture reviews, access management, and encryption
• Experience presenting audit results, risk posture, and remediation priorities to executive stakeholders
• Experience in automating, scripting, or designing automated compliance systems

You might also have...

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PCI QSA, or ISO Lead Assessor
• Experience working with Big Four audit firms and governance, risk, and compliance tools such as ServiceNow and Jira