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# Application Security Engineer (all genders)

- **Company:** About You
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Application Firewall, Software System Penetration Testing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Python (Programming Language), Laravel, Software Maintenance, Akamai, Secure Coding, Scripting, Software Security, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Golang
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3ea1b59b07d001a0

## About the Role

* Security engineering
 * Technical Project Management skills
 * Threat modeling
 * Penetration testing
 * Secure code review
 * Cloud experience: AWS, Bonus: GCP, Azure
 * Programming experience: Python required, Bonus: PHP, JavaScript, Go
 * Red teaming is a plus

Nice to have

 * Certificates:
 + Offensive Security certificates; e.g. OSCP, OSWP, etc.
 * Knowledge of Laravel / PHP.
 * Ability to read and understand JavaScript
 * Ability to read and understand Go
 * Experience with incident response activities
 * Experience with web application firewalls, CDN providers, e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai
 * Experience with Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines

## Description

We are looking for an Application Security Engineer (all genders) to join the Application Security circle of our IT-Security unit, dedicated to protecting our online shop, our corporate systems and our customers.

In this role, you will hack internal systems, design and implement security measures to safeguard our infrastructure, applications, and data. You will work closely with other security engineers, developers and IT teams to ensure security best practices, automate security processes, and respond to emerging threats.

 * Conduct regular penetration tests and code reviews
 * Advise in the setup and maintenance of applications and infrastructure (usually hosted in AWS/Kubernetes)
 * Triage and respond to monitoring events
 * Optimization and automation of security auditing processes. This could also include setting up attack infrastructure, writing scripts in Python and implementing security scanning in Gitlab CI
 * Take part in some incident response activities within the SOC, which include occasional 24/7 on-call


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