Application Security Engineer (m/f/d)

Stellenbeschreibung:

Your daily workout

Are you excited to shape application security in a modern, cloud‑native product environment? Do you enjoy working closely with software engineers and enabling teams to build secure products by design? Then apply now as an Application Security Engineer (m/f/d) for our team in Berlin or Munich!

Secure‑by‑Design Enablement: You work closely with software engineering teams to integrate application security into design, development, and deployment processes
Security Reviews: You perform and manage security reviews for major features, services, APIs, and critical applications
Tooling & Automation: You design, introduce, and continuously improve application security tooling such as SAST and DAST, including CI/CD integration
Vulnerability Management: You identify, validate, and help prioritize vulnerabilities across applications, APIs, and cloud‑native environments, supporting teams with pragmatic remediation guidance
Advisory & Consulting Role: You act as a trusted security advisor, translating security requirements and findings into practical, developer‑friendly solutions
Cloud & Platform Security: You collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and platform teams to improve security in containerized and cloud‑native setups (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, GCP/AWS)
Security Awareness: You contribute to improving security awareness and knowledge across engineering teams through documentation, guidance, and hands‑on support
Continuous Improvement: You stay up to date with emerging threats, application security trends, and DevSecOps best practices

Your fitness level

Professional Experience: You have several years of experience in Application Security, Software Security Engineering, or a closely related role
Application Security Know‑how: You have strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding principles, threat modelling, and security testing approaches such as SAST and DAST
Technical Skills: You are comfortable working with modern software stacks and can read or write code (e.g. Go, Java, Python, or similar) to support reviews, PoCs, or tooling
Cloud & DevSecOps Understanding: You are familiar with cloud‑native architectures, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments
Mindset: You enjoy working with engineers rather than acting as a gatekeeper
Working Style: You work in a structured, pragmatic, and collaborative way and feel comfortable shaping processes in a greenfield environment
Language Skills: You have professional proficiency in English

Your training goal for your first 6 months

Understanding: You gain a deep understanding of our tech stack, development processes, and teams
Planning: You create and align a plan to continuously improve the application security posture across the organization
Execution: You collaborate with engineering teams on concrete AppSec initiatives such as security tooling rollout and process improvements
Impact: You drive and deliver individual application security projects derived from the aligned plan

The equipment we provide

Learning Time: Use 10% of your time on learning topics of your choice (conferences, hackathons, internal and external events, videos, books or innovation projects)
Modern Tech Stack Engagement: Interested in working with other technologies as well? Check out our tech radar:
Choose Your Equipment: Use state‑of‑the‑art laptops (MacOS, Linux, Windows? Choose your weapon! Also choose your Distro!)
International Team: Join our diverse and international team to collaborate with talented professionals from around the world
Work‑Life‑Balance: Benefit from flexible working hours, home office possibilities and 30 days of vacation per year
Fit & Healthy: Train for free with EGYM Wellpass in several thousand sports and health facilities across Germany and/or alternatively use our in‑house gym with EGYM products
Flex Budget: Use €60 per month flexibly for public transportation and a meal subsidy
Discounts: Get a variety of great discounted offers, from fashion to leisure, through our employee benefits portal