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Lead Security Engineer in Others

  • Scout24
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Berlin, Germany

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction, roadmap priorities, and engineering outcomes for product, cloud infrastructure, and AI security.
  • Design, implement, and evolve reusable security controls, guardrails, and security-as-code patterns across cloud, identity, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD systems.
  • Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews for high-impact products, platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Build paved roads and self-service security capabilities that enable secure-by-default software delivery.
  • Use metrics and evidence to prioritize security investments and demonstrate control effectiveness.
  • Act as a technical authority and escalation point, mentor engineers, and raise security capability across the organization.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on security engineering and technical leadership experience in a medium-to-large engineering organization, including ownership of complex initiatives from direction through implementation.
  • Deep expertise in application or cloud security, with breadth across infrastructure, identity, and data security.
  • Experience building security controls for cloud-native environments, ideally AWS, including containerized workloads, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD systems.
  • Strong software engineering and automation skills, including production-quality code or tooling with Python, Terraform, or comparable alternatives.
  • Practical experience with threat modeling, secure architecture, and embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Excellent judgment, communication, influence, adaptability, and pragmatic problem-solving skills.
  • Experience using AI tools for problem-solving and productivity while maintaining human oversight and judgment.
  • Preferred: experience securing AI-enabled products, LLM applications, agents, machine-learning platforms, or supporting data pipelines.
  • Preferred: experience with Kubernetes and modern application, cloud, or software-supply-chain security tooling.
  • Preferred: experience protecting sensitive data and implementing controls under GDPR, ISO 27001, or comparable requirements.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days per week onsite in the Berlin office and flexible remaining days.
  • 30 days of vacation per year and the possibility to work abroad for up to 10 days per year, subject to business requirements.
  • Relocation support including visa assistance and a relocation package.
  • Dedicated learning time, ScoutAcademy courses, book challenges, feedback, Lunch & Learn events, and individual career paths.
  • Family service support, including childcare-center assistance and emergency childcare.
  • Dog-friendly office subject to approval, public-transport or Job Bike subsidies, and company pension support.
  • Barrier-free Berlin office near the central station with gym classes, a napping room, rooftop terrace, cafeteria, green electricity, and weekly massage therapy.
  • Health coaching and regular health checkups, plus access to ImmoScout24 tenant membership.

Scout24

Scout24 is one of the leading digital companies in Germany. With the marketplace ImmoScout24, for residential and commercial real estate, we successfully bring together homeowners, real estate agents, tenants, and buyers – and we have been doing so for more than 25 years. With approx. 19 million ...

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