Security Engineer (all genders)

Permanent contract, full-time or part-time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf

Who we areWe operate the internationalonline marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work remotely (within Germany) and choose the best of both. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day by day, our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech-en/.

Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

• Improvement of our security monitoring for the online environment and assessment of emerging technologies for potential impacts, threats, and opportunities
• Contribution to the safeguarding of our online marketplace's security
• Close collaboration with the Tech & Product department to simplify security implementation
• To manage vulnerabilites in our systems
• Shift left and integrate security seamlessly into our cloud infrastructure ensuring that security considerations are incorporated early in the development process
• To proactively identify, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities across our systems and applications, as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely mitigation and remediation
• To innovate and to propose new security solutions
• As part of our Hero-of-the-Day initiative, you support day-to-day security operations

Your profile – this is what we expect from you

• You are comfortable working in an agile team and willing to take ownership
• Enthusiastic about diving deep into technical issues
• Sound knowledge of OWASP or other frameworks
• Hands-on experience in security monitoring, application security, and / or public cloud security
• You embrace our fail-forward-culture by giving and receiving constructive feedback in a professional manner
• Capable of explaining complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Adaptable to the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape and always, ready to address emerging threats and technologies

What we offer

• Create your own work-life balance: Work at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf or up to 100% remotely!
• Diversity and variety: An international environment with talents from over 65 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives
• Do you want to move to Germany? No problem – we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
• Power meets dynamic: Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group, providing you an agile and secure working environment
• Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it's up to you
• We are team players: Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings, such as our digital onboarding program, our all-hands meetings and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• Boostyourgrowth: Benefitfromouronlinelanguagelearningoffers,ourvariousin-housetrainingoffersaswellasourautomated360-degreefeedbacktoboostyourpersonal and professionalgrowth
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
• ‘Deutschlandticket’: We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility
• Urban Sports Club: Get top deals for fitness, team sports, yoga and more
• Personal & team growth: We love flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organise company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company

Check out ourPrinciples & ourblog for even more insights into our company culture!

Diversity at Kaufland e-commerceWe welcome applications from everyone, regardless of skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) – because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity. Read morehere!
Refer an Engineer ProgramYou want to work for us, but not without your dearest colleague? Join us as a team and earn money by referring your buddy for one of our open Tech positions! Depending on the level we offer a bonus up to 1.300,- € per referral, which will be paid after successful recruitment (the first part with your first salary, the second part after your buddy passes the trial period).