Dlocal

Senior Security Engineer, Defensive Infrastructure

Madrid / Barcelona / Sao Paulo / Montevideo / Buenos Aires / Bucharest Full Time
Why should you join dLocal?
 
dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest-growing, emerging markets. 
 
By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000+ teammates from 30+ different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of people’s daily lives. We are builders, we never run from a challenge, we are customer-centric, and if this sounds like you, we know you will thrive in our team.
 
 
 

About Us & The Role

dLocal processes billions in payments across 40 emerging markets. The infrastructure behind that runs fast, runs globally, and runs on engineering teams that do not have patience for security that slows things down. Neither do we.

Our security function is lean by design and automation-native by philosophy. We have built a modern stack, a senior team, and a culture where security engineers are expected to think like builders, not gatekeepers. The CISO's mandate is simple: safely accelerate the business. Everything we build is oriented around that.

This role is the technical backbone of our defensive infrastructure layer. You will own the detection, defensive security platforms and cloud security engineering that every other security team depends on. You will work across a wide ecosystem: Cyber Detection & Response, Cloud & Platform Security, Application Security, Offensive Security, IAM, and our Security Automation & AI team internally, and Cloud Platforms, SRE, DevOps, Network, and CI/CD teams on the engineering side.

That cross-functional surface area is intentional. This is not a role where you sit inside a tool and tune rules. You will be the person who connects posture signals to response workflows, translates every security requirement into engineering backlogs and builds the infrastructure that makes the rest of the security organization measurably faster.

If your instinct when you see a manual process is to automate it before the week is out and you get genuinely energized by owning hard infrastructure problems end to end, this is built for you.