Lead Systems Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Nubank, founded in 2013, is a leading digital financial services platform empowering over 100 million customers across Latin America. As a Lead Systems Engineer in the Computing Squad, you will manage critical foundational infrastructure including Kubernetes, AWS, Network, and Service Communications. This role involves contributing to product strategy, improving infrastructure performance, costs, and governance, and setting high technical standards while mentoring junior engineers.
Must have:
- Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to improve infrastructure in areas like performance, costs, and governance.
- Act as a key technical lead, guiding and mentoring junior engineers to maintain a high-quality technical environment.
- Represent the team in technical forums, documenting, negotiating, and convincing stakeholders.
- Anticipate technical and product issues, making appropriate design decisions to avoid them.
- Deep dive into problems to identify root causes and deliver innovative solutions with medium and long-term impact.
- Understand technical aspects, capabilities, and limitations of systems, contributing to discussions and improvements.
- Contribute to Computing product strategy, working closely with peers and Product Managers.
- Experience and knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS).
- Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS.
- Experience with access management (AWS IAM, Role management).
- Experience with scaling tools like Karpenter, KEDA, and HPA.
- Experience with the Golang programming language.
- A passion for sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers.
- Creativity and analytical thinking to improve the Computing Platform.
- Advanced English skills.
Perks:
- Nubank equity
- Health and life insurance
- Food card
- 17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus
- Holiday Bonus ("Aguinaldo") of 30 days of pay per year
- NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
- NuLanguage - Our language learning program
- Extended maternity and paternity leaves
3 skills required
Job Details
About Nubank
Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, serving over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. As one of the leading technology companies in the world, Nu leverages proprietary technologies and innovative business practices to create new financial solutions and experiences for individuals and SMEs that are simple, intuitive, convenient, low-cost, empowering, and human. Guided by its mission, Nu is fostering access to financial services across Latin America.
As a Staff Security Engineer, you’re expected to:
As a key lead within the Computing Squad, you will be in contact with critical pieces of foundational infrastructure where the majority of Nubank's workloads run, including Kubernetes, AWS, Network, and Service Communications. You will contribute to our Computing product strategy, find opportunities to improve our infrastructure, and set a high technical standard for the team.
Main responsibilities:
- Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to improve our infrastructure in areas like performance, costs, and governance.
- Act as a key technical lead in the team, guiding and mentoring more junior engineers to create and maintain a high-quality technical environment.
- Represent the team in different technical forums, being able to document, negotiate, and convince different stakeholders across various levels and chapters.
- Anticipate technical and product issues, making appropriate design decisions to avoid them.
- Deep dive into problems to identify root causes and deliver innovative solutions that address team-level challenges with a focus on medium and long-term impact.
- Understand the technical aspects, capabilities, and limitations of our systems, contributing to discussions and improvements.
- Contribute to our Computing product strategy, working closely with peers and Product Managers.
What are we looking for?
- Experience and knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS).
- Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS.
- Experience with access management (AWS IAM, Role management).
- Experience with scaling tools like Karpenter, KEDA, and HPA.
- Experience with the Golang programming language.
- A passion for sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers.
- Creativity and analytical thinking to find opportunities to improve our Computing Platform.
- Advanced English skills (English will be used every day for documentation, text conversations, and meetings).
Role Location
NWW.
Benefits
- Nubank equity
- Health and life insurance
- Food card
- 17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus
- Holiday Bonus ("Aguinaldo") of 30 days of pay per year
- NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
- NuLanguage - Our language learning program
- Extended maternity and paternity leaves
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About The Company
Nubank was born in 2013 with the mission to fight against the complexity of the financial market to help our customers regain control of their financial lives. We have spent 11 years dedicated to bringing very simple ideas to places no one has ever taken them. For us, past success does not guarantee the future, which is why every day is “Day 1.” Being part of Nubank is embarking on a long-term journey where we know each challenge sparks creativity and innovation, where obstacles become opportunities to go a little further. Recently, we reached the milestone of 100 million customers globally, a significant achievement in our journey, but we know it wasn’t just the customers who chose us. We have over 8,000 Nubankers who choose to work with us daily.
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