GRC Engineer

Qonto

GRC Engineer ensuring compliance with key security certifications and leading audits at Qonto. Collaborating with teams to transition compliance processes to an automated system.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇫🇷 FranceMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and deliver external and internal audits/certifications end-to-end with minimal findings, starting with upcoming deadlines like our PCI DSS audit.
Deliver meaningful tooling and automation to reduce manual evidence collection and reporting, starting with ISO 27001 controls.
Build and maintain the documentary corpus and control mapping for upcoming regulations (notably DORA), shifting Qonto toward continuously provable compliance.
Translate compliance requirements into clear, actionable requests for technical teams without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Prepare and defend Qonto’s compliance positions with auditors by combining the spirit of regulatory texts with pragmatic, risk-based implementations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience: You have proven experience owning security compliance frameworks and audits (such as ISO 27001 or PCI DSS) end-to-end within regulated environments.
Automation mindset: You have a hands-on approach to problem-solving and have previously built tools, scripts, or integrations to automate repetitive compliance tasks and evidence collection.
Regulatory reasoning: You can constructively challenge interpretations and defend pragmatic, risk-based compliance positions with external auditors.
High Autonomy: You have strong project management skills, allowing you to organize your work around an audit calendar and juggle multiple stakeholders and deadlines simultaneously.
Growth mindset: You are naturally curious, able to quickly grasp technical contexts to collaborate with engineers, and motivated by the prospect of working across multiple regulatory frameworks.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Rare multi-framework exposure: It is quite rare to have the opportunity to work across so many different certifications and audits (ISO 27001, PCI DSS, DSP2, PDP, DORA) rather than a single-norm niche, providing you with an incredible learning curve and continuous career growth.
"GRC + Automation" scope: You won't just manage spreadsheets; you will build tooling and scripts to transition Qonto from point-in-time checks to automated compliance.
High-stakes, fast-paced context: You will manage a high audit cadence (~6–7 external and ~5–6 internal audits per year) in a highly regulated fintech environment.
Pragmatic methodology: We value risk-based argumentation and finding the right balance between strict regulatory requirements and our engineering teams' velocity.
Cross-functional collaboration: You will act as a key bridge between Internal Control, external auditors (like Mazars or Deloitte), and our Security engineering teams.

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Hard Skills & Tools

ISO 27001PCI DSScompliance frameworksaudit managementautomation toolsscriptingevidence collectioncontrol mappingrisk-based implementationregulatory compliance

Soft Skills

project managementproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationcuriosityautonomyorganizational skillsstakeholder managementinterpretation skillsdefensive reasoning