Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Job Field
- IT, Software, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will handle the implementation of security measures, lead the bug bounty program, and investigate security incidents at the code level in Rust, Go, and Python to remediate vulnerabilities.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are looking for a Mid-Level Security Engineer to own the hands-on engineering and operational work within our security program. You will be embedded in the Cloud Engineering team, report into the Security Officer, and work closely together to identify risks, set priorities, and drive security issues through remediation. You will act as a security enabler across all Product & Engineering.
- Führen Sie unser öffentliches Bug-Bounty-Programm durch: Berichte triagieren, Funde reproduzieren und validieren, klar mit Sicherheitsexperten kommunizieren und die Behebung bis zum Abschluss vorantreiben.
- Investigate reported vulnerabilities at the code level, including our Rust core, Go and Python tooling.
- Enable engineers to build secure systems: provide tooling, paved-road defaults, documentation, and practical guidance so security is the easy path, not a checkpoint.
- Partner with engineering teams to design, review, and verify fixes, and set clear security requirements on changes where the risk warrants it.
- Harden and maintain our GitHub organization's security posture, including secret scanning, push protection, branch protection and rulesets, dependency alerts, and code scanning, in partnership with the engineering teams that use these repositories daily.
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and related infrastructure.
- Track and report security metrics (vulnerability remediation SLAs, MTTR, patch latency, critical findings) and keep reporting current for the Security Officer.
- Implement, configure, and maintain security tooling across our development and cloud environments.
- Support security incident response, including investigation, containment, remediation, and follow-up.
- Maintain clear, complete, and auditable records of vulnerability and incident work in our tracking systems.
- Build security automation and guardrails that scale across the development lifecycle: CI/CD security checks, policy-as-code, GitHub automation, and automated cloud security controls, so secure defaults are enforced by tooling rather than review.
- Participate in threat modeling and architecture reviews for new services and major changes.
- We are also building out our ISMS, which creates opportunities to contribute to security-tooling evaluations, technical vendor assessments, and proof-of-concept work. Formal compliance ownership, vendor risk assessments, and customer security questionnaires remain with the Security Officer.
- This is a hands-on technical role focused on security engineering, vulnerability management, and incident response. The Security Officer owns compliance, formal third-party risk assessments, and customer security questionnaires, allowing you to focus primarily on engineering work. On-call expectations are low: there is no formal rotation, though occasional availability for high-severity incidents is expected.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You can read and navigate an unfamiliar codebase (Rust, Go, Python) well enough to validate a vulnerability report, trace its impact, and judge whether a proposed fix actually closes it.
- You write and maintain automation and security tooling comfortably, and can hold a credible technical conversation in code review.
- Practical knowledge of cloud and container security, particularly AWS and Kubernetes.
- Vertrautheit mit den Sicherheitsfunktionen von GitHub und der Absicherung von CI/CD-Pipelines.
- The ability to investigate alerts and vulnerabilities methodically, distinguish genuine risk from noise, and recommend proportionate remediation.
- Klare schriftliche Kommunikationsfähigkeiten für die Zusammenarbeit mit externen Forschern und internen Engineering-Teams.
- A self-directed approach and comfort independently managing a security queue.
- Nice to have: An offensive security background, such as penetration testing, CTF participation, vulnerability research, or exploit analysis.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with cloud-native incident response.
Experience
- Experience triaging vulnerability reports or working with a bug bounty program, vulnerability disclosure program, product security team, or similar function.
- 3+ years in a hands-on security engineering, product security, or vulnerability management role.
- Nice to have: Experience working in an open-source company or contributing security improvements to open-source projects.
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What we offer
- A remote-first, international team working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
- A competitive salary with additional perks.
- Flexible Arbeitszeiten und eine asynchron-freundliche Unternehmenskultur.
- High ownership and real impact.
- Open-source, engineering-driven culture.
- Choose your own laptop equipment.
- For US-based full-time employees, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package including 401k match, health, dental, and vision insurance, plus flexible PTO policy.
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About Your Employer
Qdrant
Qdrant Solutions GmbH, based in Berlin, is an advanced company developing an open-source vector search engine. This vector database engine serves as the infrastructure for modern AI applications and is utilized by prominent companies such as Canva and Deutsche Telekom.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Security Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
