Application Security Engineer

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
• Compliance & Certification Leadership: You lead technical readiness and evidence collection for security certifications (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) and emerging regulatory requirements, ensuring the product ecosystem meets global security Standards
• Trust & Sales Enablement: You serve as the technical authority for security questionnaires, providing accurate and timely responses to prospects and clients to streamline the sales process and demonstrate compliance with customer security requirements, * 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

• 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 modeling, 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

• Modern Tech Stack & AI Evolution: We don’t just maintain; we evolve. Explore our Tech Radar to see our stack, and join us in building an AI-agentic, iterative, and incremental product culture where AI is a core accelerator of our development lifecycle
• Learning Time: Use 10% of your time on learning topics of your choice (conferences, hackathons, internal and external events, videos, books or innovation projects)
• 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
• Mentoring Program: Exchange knowledge and grow together across teams and locations through our self-organized mentoring platform
• Discounts: Get a variety of great discounted offers, from fashion to leisure, through our employee benefits portal
• Bike Leasing: Stay active and use our leasing bike offer for your way to work or in your spare time