Senior Security Engineer

Overview

You join Spendesk as the first senior Security Engineer, building a security engineering function from the ground up. You own the technical security roadmap, partner with infrastructure and compliance, and foster a security-aware engineering culture. This is hands-on, with leadership influence and a clear path toward architecture and mentoring as the team grows. You will shape secure-by-default practices and drive incident response, threat modelling, and secure development across squads.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible on-site and remote policy
• latest Apple equipment
• Moka.care for wellbeing
• office snacks
• location-specific benefits (health insurance, wellness allowances, commuter support, meal vouchers, gym memberships)

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the bug bounty program and drive strategic improvements
• Act as escalation point for vulnerability triage and high-severity findings
• Lead security incident response, forensics, fix coordination, post-mortems and remediation tracking
• Own the SIEM platform (ElasticSearch) architecture, detections, and IOCs
• Develop and maintain security runbooks and operational documentation
• Own IAM implementation and operations for product and infra systems including SSO/MFA and secrets rotation
• Embed security into the development lifecycle with threat modelling, secure code patterns, and CI/CD hardening
• Drive security tooling in CI/CD (SAST, SCA, container scanning, AI-risk detection) and scale coverage with growth
• Coordinate penetration tests and security audits, manage auditor relationships and remediation plans
• Coach engineers on secure development, surface risks to leadership, and own the security backlog and roadmap
• Partner with Infrastructure on secure-by-default solutions

Key requirements

• Track record of owning security outcomes end-to-end across at least three areas (code auditing, infrastructure security, pentesting, SIEM, incident response)
• Ability to own a roadmap, prioritize, execute autonomously, and communicate progress to non-specialists
• Deep understanding of modern web architectures (microservices, cloud-native, PaaS/SaaS)
• Strong scripting and automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Experience mentoring other engineers or security practitioners
• Excellent communication, able to explain CVSS 9.8 to a PM and drive prioritisation

• mentoring
• clear communication
• cross-functional collaboration
• code auditing
• infrastructure security (AWS/Linux)
• penetration testing

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