Platform Security Engineer

We are looking for a senior Platform Security Engineer to strengthen cloud security, platform reliability, and secure engineering practices in a fully remote European environment.
In this individual contributor role, you will join a platform engineering team focused on building reliable infrastructure and improving the developer experience.
You will design and implement secure-by-default workflows that protect sensitive personal and compensation data across multiple countries.
Your work will span cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD security, identity management, observability, and disaster recovery.
You will collaborate closely with engineers to embed security into everyday workflows without compromising delivery speed or usability.
By combining hands-on engineering, automation, and pragmatic risk management, you will help build a resilient platform where security becomes the easiest path.
This is an opportunity to shape platform security strategy while delivering measurable improvements in a collaborative, remote-first team.

You should be a hands-on platform engineer with strong production security expertise and the ability to turn security requirements into practical, measurable improvements. Evidence of what you have built, improved, and influenced is more important than a specific number of years of experience.

• Demonstrated ownership of application or platform security in a production cloud environment, with clear examples of impact.

• Strong cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, SSO/OIDC, secrets management, identity integrations, and least-privilege access.

• Solid platform engineering experience across infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, security automation, and observability.

• Proven experience operating Kubernetes in production, including workload security and access controls.

• Practical knowledge of cloud networking and edge technologies, including VPCs, DNS, TLS, load balancing, CDNs, and WAFs.

• Experience with reliability engineering practices such as SLOs, on-call operations, threat modeling, incident coordination, and postmortems.

• Hands-on experience designing and testing backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures.

• A product-oriented approach to platform engineering, with attention to developer experience, adoption, usability, and measurable outcomes.

• Ability to write and review code to diagnose and resolve problems directly rather than simply identify or report them.

• Experience using AI tools to accelerate engineering tasks and integrate AI-assisted capabilities into platform workflows.

• Fluent English, with the ability to communicate technical decisions, document trade-offs, and collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment.

• Experience with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or DORA compliance requirements.

• Background in fintech, payroll, or other environments handling regulated or sensitive data.

• Knowledge of detection engineering, security information and event management (SIEM), or related security monitoring practices.

• Experience with PostgreSQL operations and safe database schema migrations.

• Familiarity with Elixir or the ability to learn and work with functional programming languages.

• Awareness of cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.

• Relevant certifications, although practical experience and demonstrated outcomes are prioritized.