Paddle
Paddle
201 – 500 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorB2BFintechSaaS
Paddle provides payments and billing infrastructure for SaaS companies, acting as a merchant of record for software sales. Its services cover payment processing, subscription management, pricing tools, tax compliance, and fraud protection, taking on sales tax and fraud liability so software businesses can manage global transactions through one provider. Paddle’s product suite also includes ProfitWell Metrics and Price Intelligently. This profile covers Paddle as an employer and its hiring context.

Staff Systems Engineer

Lead secure infrastructure, integrations, and automation for Paddle’s Merchant of Record payments platform. Advance cloud security, compliance, and operational reliability across global teams.

Description

  • Lead automation initiatives that reduce manual work and improve reliability, scalability, and security.
  • Build and optimise integrations for business-critical IT and security systems.
  • Create and maintain infrastructure as code for identity, networking, and security tools.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, auditable changes.
  • Promote alignment with industry practices and security standards, including CIS Benchmarks.
  • Help implement governance, risk, and compliance controls and gather audit evidence.
  • Partner with stakeholders on projects supporting the Enterprise Technology roadmap.
  • Help configure and monitor AWS infrastructure securely.
  • Work with the Platform team to deliver dependable, scalable security initiatives.
  • Keep internal documentation and knowledge bases up to date.
  • Mentor and support engineers across information security, IT, and engineering.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in systems, site reliability, or security engineering, or software development.
  • A strong record of hands-on delivery across IT and security.
  • Experience collaborating across business functions and independently delivering high-impact projects.
  • Strong knowledge of systems integration and automation.
  • Working awareness of standards and frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.
  • Experience implementing compliance controls in production environments.
  • Strong cloud security expertise, including identity management, resource configuration, and monitoring.
  • Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, ideally including containerised workloads and cloud-native deployments.
  • Familiarity with modern device management, IAM, and EDR tools such as Okta, Iru, Island, and SentinelOne.
  • Familiarity with collaboration and networking tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Cloudflare Zero Trust.
  • A software engineering background is desirable, along with scripting or programming experience for workflow automation and systems integration.
  • Hands-on experience authoring and operating infrastructure as code; Terraform is strongly preferred.
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Enthusiasm for security, automation, and operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Work remotely, from a Paddle hub, or through a combination of both.
  • Unlimited holiday allowance.
  • Four months of paid family leave, regardless of gender.
  • Annual learning fund.
  • Regular internal and external training.
  • Personal development through exposure to new challenges.
  • Workplace accommodations and support during the application process.

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