Security Engineer: AI & Cloud Defense

clara; Bogotá ciudad; On-site; COP 248,316,000 - 372,474,000; Full time

Job summary

Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America, delivering a leading payments platform for large businesses. We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region, with a fast-paced environment and teams distributed across the Americas.

We’re hiring a Security Engineer to own outcomes, lead security workstreams, and mentor junior engineers. You’ll shape AI safety controls, cloud security on AWS/GCP, and guardrails to enable safe product

Qualifications

• 2-4 years in security engineering or related role
• Strong hands-on AWS and/or GCP security knowledge
• Solid programming ability (Python/Go/TypeScript) to build tooling
• Experience with SIEM and EDR platforms
• Familiarity with LLM-based systems and agents

Responsibilities

• Own outcomes across the security function and mentor engineers
• Define and operate controls for AI usage, data handling and logging
• Threat-model AI systems and secure-by-default patterns
• Secure cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and IAM, logging, and detections
• Lead incident response and forensic investigations with SIEM and EDR tools
• Coordinate preventive controls and audits aligned to PCI DSS and ISO 27001

Skills

Security engineering

AWS/GCP security

Programming: Python/Go/JS

SIEM/EDR experience

LLM-based systems

Tools

Splunk

Terraform

Job description

Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America, delivering a leading payments platform for large businesses. We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region, with a fast-paced environment and teams distributed across the Americas.

We’re hiring a Security Engineer to own outcomes, lead security workstreams, and mentor junior engineers. You’ll shape AI safety controls, cloud security on AWS/GCP, and guardrails to enable safe product