4 months ago
Munich, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Identify, assess, and prioritize security risks across systems, products, and infrastructure
- Design and implement security controls across cloud platforms, applications, products, and data
- Develop and apply threat models to identify architectural risks, trust-boundary issues, and failure modes
- Advise engineering, product, and operational teams through security patterns, guidance, and guardrails
- Contribute to security incident detection, investigation, and containment and drive systemic improvements
- Build automation and improve tooling to reduce manual security work and embed secure-by-default practices
- Provide technical depth for audits, certifications, and customer security reviews
Requirements
- Deep hands-on expertise in one or two security domains such as application security, cloud security, identity and access management, cryptography, detection and response, or platform security
- Ability to assess trust boundaries, failure modes, blast radius, and adversarial behavior
- Ability to communicate complex security risks to engineers, product managers, and senior leadership and influence outcomes without relying on authority
- Risk-based decision-making and sound judgment under uncertainty
- Experience working across multiple teams and technical domains
- Track record of identifying security gaps and driving improvements through resolution
- Preferred experience in regulated, high-assurance, defence-adjacent, or other environments with significant security consequences
- Preferred hands-on offensive security experience, including red teaming, penetration testing, or adversarial simulation
- Preferred familiarity with AI/ML security, including model integrity, data pipeline security, or adversarial ML
- Preferred experience designing security programs at scale, including security champion networks, secure development lifecycle tooling, or organization-wide risk frameworks
- Preferred cloud-native security engineering experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including infrastructure-as-code, container security, and cloud identity patterns
- Preferred exposure to supply-chain security, dependency management, build pipeline integrity, or third-party component assurance
- Preferred experience with classified data, government security frameworks, or cross-domain security requirements
Benefits
- Competitive salary and VSOP options
- Relocation support with up to €2,500 and four weeks of temporary accommodation
- Annual learning allowance of €500/£450
- Gym membership and mental health support through Nilo.health
- Company events and monthly social allowances
- Enhanced parental leave of 22 weeks for primary caregivers and six weeks for secondary caregivers
- Five days of paid family emergency leave
- 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work
- Additional benefits may vary by location
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About Helsing
Helsing was founded to provide Artificial Intelligence to protect our democracies. Helsing works with partners in governments and across industry. Together, we develop systems that leverage AI and autonomy to provide autonomous mass that is sovereign, scalable and affordable. We’re looking for people with their heart in the right place, who share our conviction that liberal democratic values are worth protecting, for ourselves and for future generations.