Staff Systems Engineer

About the role

The Staff Systems Engineer will lead and innovate at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and automation. This role involves driving the evolution of systems landscape in both Enterprise IT and Product environments to ensure secure, scalable, and efficient operations. The successful candidate will act as a technical leader, mentoring others and championing industry best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to automate operational processes, reducing manual effort and increasing reliability, with a focus on scalability and security.
• Partner with IT and InfoSec leadership to design, implement, and optimise integrations across business-critical IT and security systems, ensuring seamless connectivity and data flow.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code for our identity, network, and security tooling, including CI/CD pipelines for safe, auditable change delivery.
• Champion compliance with industry best practices and security standards, including CIS Benchmarks, and proactively identify areas for improvement.
• Support GRC initiatives on control implementation, audit evidence gathering and unlocking efficiency improvements through the adoption of automation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver projects aligned with the Enterprise Technology roadmap, ensuring measurable impact and timely delivery.
• Contribute to the secure configuration and monitoring of our AWS cloud infrastructure and working with the Platform team to ensure security initiatives are delivered in a scalable and reliable manner.
• Develop and maintain internal documentation and knowledge bases to ensure consistent, high-quality support and operational excellence.
• Mentor and support other engineers across InfoSec, IT and the wider Engineering function, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.

Required skills

• Systems engineering
• Security engineering
• Automation
• Systems integration
• Cloud security
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Terraform

Nice to have

• Software development
• AWS
• Containerised workloads
• Okta
• SentinelOne
• Google Workspace
• Cloudflare Zero Trust

Benefits

• Unlimited holidays
• 4 months paid family leave
• Annual learning fund
• Internal and external training

About the Company

Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure by acting as a Merchant of Record. The company is backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serves over 6000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.