Engineering Director, Security
Core
Lead a global security engineering organization to embed security as an inherent property of Monzo's distributed systems and platform primitives.
Role type
Senior IC engineering director (security strategy & platform)
Builds
Secure-by-design global infrastructure and platform primitives for a UK-based digital banking service
Domain
Fintech / Distributed Systems / Cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering leadership, organizational design, platform thinking, distributed systems architecture, technical judgement, high-scale backend engineering
Preferred skills
Architectural authority, outcome-obsessed mindset, empathy & inclusion, decisiveness in ambiguity
Technologies
Distributed systems, cryptographic trust boundaries, compute, storage, networking, identity
Responsibilities
Drive secure-by-design mandate and proactive architectural invariants; eliminate systemic risk via root-cause software improvements; partner with product teams to embed security culture; cultivate an engineering-first security culture; manage a high-performing group of 30–50 engineers; collaborate on company-wide security standards; advise C-suite on long-term business security health
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with high-scale leadership
