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Security Engineer
Location
Berlin, Germany
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full Time
Experience
7-10 years
Compensation
€100K - €150K per year
Posted
2d ago
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The Security Engineer will own end-to-end security engineering across application, infrastructure, and incident response, partnering with product and platform teams. This role involves defining security in a modern bank, hardening cloud and CI/CD paths, building detection and response workflows, and driving remediation with a focus on measurable risk reduction.
The Role You will own security engineering end-to-end across application, infrastructure, and incident response: partnering with product and platform teams during design, writing and shipping security automation in production, and leading incident response when issues arise. You will help define security for a greenfield modern correspondent bank, harden cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines, build detection and response workflows, and drive remediation with pragmatic risk trade-offs. Reporting directly to the CISO, your primary goal is delivering measurable risk reduction while maintaining engineering delivery speed.
Your First Six Months
Months 1-2: Enforce a secure SDLC across EU-live payment and ledger services and US launch-critical services, establishing clear design, build, and release checkpoints (ownership, control evidence, and exceptions), ensuring 100% of new Tier-1 changes comply.
Months 3-4: Build an AI-native product security review pipeline that triages code, dependency, and IaC findings by service criticality, generates automated PR fixes, assigns tagged remediation tasks, and cuts down alert noise.
Months 5-6: Scale baseline security controls to at least 85% of Tier-1 services (workload identity hardening, secret management standards, runtime audit logging, and dependency monitoring), initiating recurring monthly control-evidence reporting for Security and Compliance.
Who Will Thrive At Augustus We believe giving high-agency talent ownership of massive challenges drives superior results:
American Dream: You aim high, choose demanding goals, and stay optimistic under pressure.
Live Player: You act without waiting for permission, proactively repair broken systems, and challenge default assumptions.
Ever to Excel: You refuse mediocrity, take pride in craftsmanship, and raise the standard across the organization.
Genuine: You prioritize company success over titles or politics, communicate candidly upward and outward, and operate with low ego.
This Role Is for You If:
You have built security automation that successfully replaced repetitive manual workflows.
You have deep product security foundations and champion secure-by-default architectures.
You lead production rollouts of controls from design through implementation and compliance evidence.
You actively shape architectural designs before release using lightweight, practical risk evaluations.
You write production-grade code and infrastructure automation, moving beyond documentation or ticket filing.
You leverage AI tooling to accelerate review depth and remediation workflows without losing signal quality.
You thrive in ambiguity and drive clarity across engineering teams without predefined playbooks.
Hard Requirements
Deep hands-on experience in security engineering, product security, cloud security, or detection and response in production environments.
Demonstrated technical depth securing cloud architectures (IAM, network isolation, audit logging, key management) and CI/CD pipelines.
Proven track record of designing and operating production security automation or detection tooling.
Background in fintech, banking, payments, or strictly regulated environments subject to compliance and audit scrutiny.
Working proficiency with modern cloud security platforms, SIEM, and SOAR tooling.
Based in (or willing to relocate to) Berlin with an on-site presence of 3 days per week.
What We Offer
Direct equity ownership: Every team member participates as a shareholder.
Hardware and office: Latest Apple setup (MacBook and AirPods) in a central Berlin office.
Relocation assistance: Full visa sponsorship and relocation support.
Well-being and stipends: Lunch benefits, fitness stipends, and an annual learning and development budget.
Offsites: Four company on-sites and retreats each year.
Full benefits: Localized healthcare coverage, life care, and country-specific retirement contributions.
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Augustus
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Growing team
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Berlin, Germany
Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented. The Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves.
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Security Engineer
Berlin, Germany • Full Time