Lead Application Security Engineer (m/f/d)
An Application Security Engineer embeds security best practices into cloud-native software development, leads security reviews, and automates tooling (SAST/DAST) to harden APIs, apps, and Kubernetes environments while advising engineering teams on secure coding and DevSecOps.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Munich
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Full description
Are you excited to shape application security in a modern, cloud-native product environment? Do you enjoy working closely with software engineers and enabling teams to build secure products by design? Then apply now as an Application Security Engineer (m/f/d) for our team in Berlin or Munich!Your daily workout
- Secure-by-Design Enablement: You work closely with software engineering teams to integrate application security into design, development, and deployment processes
- Security Reviews: You perform and manage security reviews for major features, services, APIs, and critical applications
- Tooling & Automation: You design, introduce, and continuously improve application security tooling such as SAST and DAST, including CI/CD integration
- Vulnerability Management: You identify, validate, and help prioritize vulnerabilities across applications, APIs, and cloud-native environments, supporting teams with pragmatic remediation guidance
- Advisory & Consulting Role: You act as a trusted security advisor, translating security requirements and findings into practical, developer-friendly solutions
- Cloud & Platform Security: You collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and platform teams to improve security in containerized and cloud-native setups (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, GCP/AWS)
- Security Awareness: You contribute to improving security awareness and knowledge across engineering teams through documentation, guidance, and hands-on support
- Continuous Improvement: You stay up to date with emerging threats, application security trends, and DevSecOps best practices
- Compliance & Certification Leadership: You lead technical readiness and evidence collection for security certifications (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) and emerging regulatory requirements, ensuring the product ecosystem meets global security Standards
- Trust & Sales Enablement: You serve as the technical authority for security questionnaires, providing accurate and timely responses to prospects and clients to streamline the sales process and demonstrate compliance with customer security requirements
Your fitness level
- Professional Experience: You have 5+ years of experience in Application Security, Software Security Engineering, or a closely related role
- Application Security Know-how: You have strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding principles, threat modeling, and security testing approaches such as SAST and DAST
- Technical Skills: You are comfortable working with modern software stacks and can read or write code (e.g. Go, Java, Python, or similar) to support reviews, PoCs, or tooling