Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Network)

Nubank; São Paulo; Hybrid; BRL 300,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunity

Meal card

Transportation benefit

Medical plan

Dental plan

Parental leave

Work-from-home allowance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Nubank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape the cloud network platform that spans cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will own architecture decisions across multi-account, multi-region and multi-geo designs while maintaining auditability and cost efficiency.

This IC6 role emphasizes technical depth, design authority, and cross-team influence rather than direct reports. You will drive complex network initiatives and mentor IC4/IC5 engineers to raise the overall platform quality.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale cloud networking.
• Hands-on AWS networking with strong multi-account designs.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex network problems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve technical direction for cloud network platform.
• Lead high- and low-level design across multi-account/region/topologies.
• Manage end-to-end network projects with cross-team coordination.
• Reduce complexity through simplification and cost optimization.
• Own operational health, incident response and postmortems.
• Promote safe change with feature flags and monitoring.
• Define observability and SLAs for the platform.
• Mentor engineers and participate in hiring discussions.

Skills

CCIE/CCNP equivalent

AWS networking

Network design

Python

Go/Java/.NET

Incident response

Leadership (technical)

Communication

Education

Networking certifications (CCIE/CCNP)

Tools

Transit Gateway

VPC design

Direct Connect

PrivateLink

Job description

About Nu

Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services. Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.

About The Role

Every transaction at Nubank travels across a network before it reaches a customer. As we grow across countries, accounts, regions and hybrid environments, the connectivity layer underneath has to stay fast, segmented, auditable and cheap to run - while never becoming the thing that takes the platform down.

As a Lead Software Engineer on a Cloud Network platform engineering team, you set and evolve the technical direction for how Nubank connects its cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. You own problems whose scope spreads across several teams and business units, and you are expected to bring structure to ambiguity rather than wait for it to be resolved for you.

This is an IC6 role: you lead through technical depth, design authority and influence rather than direct reports. The goal you own is a cloud network platform that scales with the business, holds up under audit, and gets simpler over time instead of more complex.

You’ll be responsible for

• Setting and evolving the technical direction of the cloud network platform owned by your team, aligning with Nubank's canonical approaches and contributing back to the broader technical community.
• Leading high-level and low-level design for connectivity patterns across multi-account, multi-region, multi-geo and hybrid-cloud topologies, independently making sound architectural decisions in multi-component, multi-team designs.
• Managing complex network projects and processes end to end - working independently, coordinating across subjects and stakeholders, and escalating for managerial support in a timely way rather than reactively.
• Proactively reducing long-term complexity through simplification, consolidation, deprecation and paved roads, explicitly balancing scalability, maintainability and cost, and considering both human and AI interaction with the platform.
• Owning the operational health of the network platform in your team's scope: leading complex incident response (diagnosis, coordination, resolution), driving complex postmortems, and owning the short- and long-term tech debt strategy that comes out of them.
• Promoting a culture of safe change - feature flags, gradual rollout, monitoring, fast rollback - applied to network changes, and driving simplification and cost optimization across the topology.
• Setting and enforcing quality standards for the team's automation and infrastructure code: testing practices, code review bar, reusable modules, and anticipation of quality and maintainability needs coming from business strategy.
• Defining observability for the platform - robust monitoring, controls and SLAs that surface issues proactively rather than after customer impact.
• Bringing a strong end-to-end domain understanding: tracing a business process from product through the transactional path down to the network and data layers, and understanding how network design choices propagate through it.
• Owning the network security posture of your scope, including PCI DSS or equivalent standards, segmentation, and controls that hold up under audit.
• Evaluating buy vs. build options and new products and technologies, being data-driven about stability, reliability, scalability and cost before committing to a solution.
• Mentoring IC4/IC5 engineers on the broader system landscape, design reasoning and operational practice, and raising the bar of the people around you.
• Participating in hiring as a core part of the role, contributing to function-wide taskforces and initiatives, and documenting decisions so that knowledge travels across teams, not just within yours.

We are looking for a person who has

• CCIE, CCNP or equivalent experience - you are comfortable designing, building, implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting complex, large-scale networking infrastructures.
• Solid hands-on experience in infrastructure automation and cloud computing (AWS preferred), with depth in AWS networking services - Transit Gateway, VPC design, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, NAT/egress patterns, network firewalls - or similar technologies.
• Deep experience planning, deploying and troubleshooting network solutions at scale: IP address management, BGP and dynamic routing, firewalls, load balancers, routers and switches, and hybrid connectivity.
• Strong coding skills (python, .Net. Java, Go etc.)
• Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis for high-impact, ambiguous failures across team boundaries.
• Strong leadership: you confidently lead complex projects that carry ambiguity and require strategic thinking, with or without formal authority.
• Experienced communication: you convey complex technical messages clearly and persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences, adjusting depth and examples to the room, and you facilitate productive discussion rather than just presenting.
• Strategic acumen and long-term perspective: you connect network platform decisions to business drivers such as operational efficiency, reliability and cost, link 6-12 month initiatives to the broader organizational strategy, and anticipate cross-team impact and trade-offs.
• An analytical profile: you go after root causes and propose solutions that hold, working creatively and analytically in a continuous improvement environment.
• English proficiency - able to read, write and lead discussions across time zones and language boundaries.

Location for this opportunity (City, Country)

São Paulo, Brazil

Our Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Food/Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
• Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
• NuCare - Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• NuLanguage - Language Course Program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• Extended Parental Leave
• Daycare Allowance
• Parental Consultancy
• Work-from-home Allowance
• Gym Partnerships
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Work Model for this Role

Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence-enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers. To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here