Security Engineer
ArangoDB
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cologne • Germany
Visit company websiteExplore more
About the role
- Ensure our product is robust and "water-tight" against a wide range of cyber threats. This involves integrating security best practices into the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from design to deployment.
- Perform security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing on our services.
- Responsible for finding, prioritizing, and fixing security issues (vulnerabilities and misconfigurations) before they can be exploited or cause disruption and "havoc."
- Secure our managed service environment; implementing, configuring, and maintaining security tools (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF, Vulnerability Scanners) within our cloud infrastructure.
- Establish and maintain tight security monitoring and comprehensive alerting mechanisms for our Operations Team. This ensures rapid detection and response to potential security incidents across our production environment.
- Own Kubernetes security, including cluster hardening, networking, and secrets.
- Collaborate on incident response, security controls, and awareness efforts.
Requirements
- 3–7+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, or endpoint security, with a proven ability to design and operate security solutions in fast-paced environments.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes security, including cluster hardening, network policies, and secrets management.
- Cloud security experience across AWS and/or GCP, including securing cloud services, infrastructure as code, and multi-cloud environments.
- Solid foundation in core security domains: IAM, network security, vulnerability management, and incident response.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and translate security risks into a business context.
- Fluent in English; German is a plus.
Benefits
- Opportunity to help build and mature the security function of a fast-growing AI company.
- High autonomy and direct impact reporting to the CISO.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Hybrid work environment based in Germany.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
security engineeringinfrastructure securityendpoint securityKubernetes securitycloud securityAWSGCPIAMnetwork securityvulnerability management
Soft skills
strong communication skillscollaborationtranslating security risks into business context