Bitpanda

Senior Cyber Security Engineer, Elastic (Security Operations)

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Vienna, AustriaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy and quality of the Elastic Security detection library using ES|QL and KQL.
  • Design high-fidelity detections mapped to attacker techniques and improve SOC coverage and signal quality.
  • Lead incident investigations, threat hunting, response playbook refinement, and post-incident security improvements.
  • Build automated investigation, enrichment, and response workflows using SOAR, APIs, and custom tooling.
  • Improve cloud security monitoring, system hardening, and security tooling across AWS.
  • Partner with engineering teams to eliminate risk, support ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and DORA compliance initiatives, and promote security best practices.
  • Mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and participate in a weekly rotating on-call schedule.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in incident response, threat hunting, SIEM, digital forensics, and scripting.
  • Experience designing detections, automating workflows, and improving security operations processes.
  • Strong experience securing cloud-native environments, particularly AWS, with expertise in system hardening, network security, IAM, and security monitoring.
  • Experience with Elastic Security, ES|QL, and KQL is highly desirable.
  • Ability to own complex technical challenges, lead initiatives through implementation, mentor others, and collaborate across engineering.

Benefits

  • EU relocation benefits are offered for moving to Vienna.
  • Hybrid work combines onsite collaboration and remote work, with an additional 25 days per year available to work from a chosen city or country.
  • The package includes total compensation, participation in a stock option plan, and location-specific benefits.
  • Access to OpenUP coaching, counselling, and mental health resources.
  • Three additional paid time-off days in 2027 are available after six months of employment.
  • Unlimited access to Udemy online courses.
  • Partner discounts, rewards, and lifestyle, wellness, technology, and travel perks.
  • Up to eight additional weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave.
  • Free onsite dining in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin.
  • Company events, tenure recognition, and Bitpanda merchandise are provided.

Tech Stack

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About Bitpanda

501-1,000 employees

Bitpanda builds a European investing platform for retail customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, stocks/ETFs, and precious metals via mobile and web apps. It earns revenue from brokerage spreads and related services, and also provides Bitpanda Technology Solutions that lets banks and fintechs embed investing. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, it operates across several European markets and is privately held.

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