Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 122 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people, we are redefining financial services in Latin America and this is still just the beginning of the purple future we're building.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human.
Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Bank. Visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/
About the team
The GitHub Governance team is one of the highest-leverage teams in ETS. It decides — and operationalizes — how ten thousand Nubankers interact with GitHub, how repositories are governed, how access is granted and revoked, how vulnerabilities are surfaced and triaged, and how the platform serves as the substrate for AI-assisted development at Nubank. The team's mandate touches every engineer in the company and every InfoSec, IAM, and Datasec partner that depends on the platform.
The team is currently four people, holding the platform's active mandate: KPMG audit obligations, EMU (Enterprise Managed Users) migration, rollouts including Copilot Code Review, vibe-coding profile design, the inactivity-rule mechanism, and IP control work tied to the AI-First posture. Every GitHub change at Nubank now routes through formal change management with InfoSec.
About the roleThis role is a senior individual contributor on the GitHub Governance team, sharing technical ownership of the platform's surface with the existing senior engineers. The role is hands-on and execution-heavy: shipping platform changes, building automation, partnering with InfoSec on IAM and Datasec design decisions, and contributing senior judgment to the team's most exposed work. The role operates with autonomy, owning problems end-to-end, making technical calls within their scope without waiting for direction, and knowing when to escalate versus move forward.
What the person will ownAs a Senior Software Engineer you will work across the team's portfolio, owning the slices that fit their depth and partnering on the rest. The current portfolio includes KPMG audit response and evidence collection, EMU migration (user-profile migration is the active Wave 1, with the Identity Hub workaround as the path forward), rollouts including Copilot Code Review, vibe-coding profile work and the connected guardrails, the inactivity-rule design, and IP control mechanisms.
Beyond execution, you will be a senior voice in the team's design discussions: architecture decisions, integration patterns with Identity Hub, ITSec/IAM/Datasec touchpoints, and the cross-pack discussions with Coding Tools, AI Enablement, and Enterprise Solutions. You will be one of the engineers shaping how GitHub-change governance works in practice at Nubank.
This role will also serve as a technical partner in shaping the team's GitHub platform strategy, working alongside the PM to evaluate GitHub's product roadmap, anticipate how upcoming features affect Nubank's governance model.
- Demonstrated depth administering GitHub Enterprise at scale (10,000+ users), including EMU (Enterprise Managed Users), organization and repo-level policy design, and rulesets.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot administration and rollout at an organizational level.
- Proficiency with the GitHub API and automation via GitHub Actions, including building or maintaining CODEOWNERS structures and branch protection patterns at scale.
- Working knowledge of GitHub audit logs and the ability to trace a policy decision through to its downstream effects on users, repositories, audit trails, and connected systems.
- Prior experience operating within a regulated engineering organization, with working knowledge of how InfoSec, IAM, and Datasec functions interact with a platform engineering team.
- Track record of working cross-functionally with security leadership, tooling/enablement teams, and engineering stakeholders — writing clearly, pushing back constructively, and building trust quickly across functions without formal authority over those teams.
- Experience supporting or shaping an organization's AI-adoption strategy as it intersects with developer tooling and platform policy (e.g., Copilot governance, AI-assisted coding guardrails).
- Familiarity with running GitHub Enterprise in a multi-business-unit or multi-pack organizational structure, including navigating competing stakeholder priorities.
- Experience partnering directly with external auditors (e.g., Big Four firms) on platform-level compliance evidence or remediation.
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
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/
Skills Required
- Administering GitHub Enterprise at scale (10,000+ users), including EMU, organization and repo-level policy design, and rulesets
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot administration and organizational rollout
- Proficiency with the GitHub API and automation via GitHub Actions, including CODEOWNERS and branch protection patterns at scale
- Working knowledge of GitHub audit logs and ability to trace policy decisions to downstream effects on users, repos, and systems
- Prior experience operating within a regulated engineering organization and understanding InfoSec, IAM, and Datasec interactions
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration with security leadership, tooling/enablement teams, and engineering stakeholders
- Experience supporting or shaping AI-adoption strategy intersecting developer tooling and platform policy (e.g., Copilot governance)
- Familiarity running GitHub Enterprise across multiple business units or complex organizational structures
- Experience partnering with external auditors (e.g., Big Four) on platform compliance evidence or remediation
Nubank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nubank and has not been reviewed or approved by Nubank.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive, especially for tech roles in Brazil/LatAm, with strong top‑of‑band packages reported for senior and product/design positions. Salaries are often described as good, contributing to broadly positive pay sentiment.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity opportunities (typically RSUs) are widely available across postings and regarded as a meaningful component of total compensation. This equity element strengthens overall packages, particularly for technical and product roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is extended and gender‑neutral across countries, with additional childcare support and parental counseling in Brazil. These family‑focused policies enhance the perceived value of the benefits package.
Nubank Insights
What We Do
Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving more than 70 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. As one of the leading technology companies in the world, Nu leverages proprietary technologies and innovative business practices to create new financial solutions and experiences for individuals and SMEs that are simple, intuitive, convenient, low-cost, empowering, and human. Guided by its mission, Nu is fostering access to financial services across Latin America.
