Security Director, LATAM Tech – Cross-Border Payments

Airtm; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtm is seeking a senior security leader to own the security posture of systems that move money across borders. You will set strategy, build the security team, and stay hands-on for hard technical decisions.

This role reports to the VP of Engineering and drives incident response, secure SDLC integration, and cloud-hardening across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IAM, and secrets management. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in information or application security with 3+ years of leadership, strong

Qualifications

• 8+ years in information or application security with leadership experience
• Hands-on security in a microservices environment and cloud security
• Fluency reading TypeScript/Node.js and Terraform; AI-assisted tools familiarity

Responsibilities

• Own detection, response, and recovery for security incidents and lead post-incident reviews.
• Embed security into the SDLC with threat modeling, secure design reviews, and automated scanning.
• Harden AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IAM, and secrets management.

Skills

Security strategy

Team leadership

AWS security

Threat modeling

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

Airtm is seeking a senior security leader to own the security posture of systems that move money across borders. You will set strategy, build the security team, and stay hands-on for hard technical decisions.

This role reports to the VP of Engineering and drives incident response, secure SDLC integration, and cloud-hardening across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IAM, and secrets management. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in information or application security with 3+ years of leadership, strong