Senior Security Engineer - Product (m/f/d)
Berlin, European Union, Germany
Full-time
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Employment Type: permanent
- Role: Senior Security Engineer
- Previous working experience: minimum 5+ years in Software Security
- Working hours: full-time
- Working Location: Remote/Berlin
- Reports to the Director of Information Security
- English C1, German is a plus
- You are willing to subject yourself to the S2 security screening (Sicherheitsüberprüfung) of the German Government (Security Screening Act (SÜG))
YOUR CHALLENGE AT WIRE
- Drive product security improvements across the SSDLC and support our compliance efforts
- Perform threat modeling, security reviews, and security architecture assessments
- Support vulnerability management and remediation of product and platform security issues
- Help implement and improve security controls in areas such as application security, cloud security, CI/CD, containers, secrets handling, and infrastructure-as-code
- Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering and Product, enabling secure‑by‑design decisions without becoming a delivery bottleneck
- Establish metrics that demonstrate security velocity and customer trust
- Maintaining cyber security controls and operations security
- Develop and maintain scripting/automation for security controls
- Monitor and analyze security events and incidents, responding promptly and appropriately to mitigate threats and minimize impact
- Advise our engineers regarding concepts and implementation of security requirements
- Support technical due‑diligence to ensure compliance with our internal and external security requirements
- Contribute to internal and external audits, risk assessments and threat modeling workshops
- Contribute to security awareness and practical guidance for product and engineering teams
- Help maintain relevant documentation in tools like GitHub, Jira, Confluence and our security compliance platform
YOUR PROFILE
- Work experience in application security, product security, or secure software development
- Proven expertise in threat modeling, secure architecture design and cryptographic protocols
- In‑depth knowledge and expertise in Platform Security practices and methodologies, with hands‑on experience implementing security in a DevOps environment
- Hands‑on experience with secure software development, threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability management
- Very good understanding of modern environments such as web, backend, mobile, APIs, cloud, containers, and CI/CD
- You have hands on experience supporting and training developers on secure coding practices and application security best practices.
- Ability to work pragmatically with engineering teams and explain security risks in a clear, actionable way
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively convey complex security concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, enabling mindset
- Basic understanding of information security frameworks, standards, and regulations (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, CIS, NIST, GDPR).
- Ideally experience with telecommunications or messaging security
WHY WIRE?
- Join a market‑proven (>1,000 customers) company and drive Wire to become the worldwide market leader.
- Enjoy a yearly education budget of 1000 EUR to strengthen personal capabilities.
- With an Urban Sports Club subscription, stay balanced and mentally and physically healthy!
- Work from a beautiful office in the heart of Berlin or choose a mix of working from anywhere vs. spending selected days together in our office to connect on a personal level
- Enjoy fresh breakfast in the office, daily fruits, snacks, free soft drinks, and the world's best Barista coffee machine.
- Wire is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or race.
- If you are an experienced software engineer with a proven track record of building and scaling mobile applications in a secure environment, we encourage you to apply and join us at Wire
