Sr Security Engineer | Remote | Europe

The role

The Senior Security Engineer will identify and reduce security risks across product and internal systems. You will use threat modelling, hands-on security expertise, and cross-functional collaboration to help teams design and operate secure systems.

What you will do

• Conduct threat modelling and risk assessments across product features, AI agents, cloud infrastructure, corporate IT, internal applications, and data systems.
• Partner with Engineering, Cloud, IT, and Data teams to review security designs and define security requirements.
• Help teams embed security into development processes through guidance, design reviews, and tooling.
• Participate in security triage rotation to assess and validate incoming vulnerability reports.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to coordinate vulnerability remediation and verify fixes.
• Help manage vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty programmes.
• Establish and improve logging, detection, and protective monitoring capabilities.
• Develop and improve incident response processes, runbooks, and exercises.
• Support SOC 2 compliance through continuous control monitoring and automated evidence collection.
• Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success to respond to customer security assessments.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience assessing real-world systems and recommending practical controls.
• Ability to validate security findings, reproduce vulnerabilities, and write code or automation.
• Hands-on experience in infrastructure, product, or application security within a product-focused organisation.
• Ability to act as an internal security consultant and influence stakeholders.
• Experience translating security findings into actionable requirements and ensuring remediation.
• Comfortable using LLM-assisted tooling and understanding its limitations and security implications.
• Ability to explain complex security risks and provide practical guidance.
• Deep expertise in at least two of the following: Application Security, Platform Security, Corporate Security, Security Monitoring, or Security Assurance & Compliance.

Nice to have

• Experience operating bug bounty or coordinated vulnerability disclosure programmes.
• Experience assessing or securing LLM-powered applications and AI agents.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Okta, Azure, or Drata.
• Experience with open-source or source-available products.
• Practical penetration testing experience.
• Early security hire or experience establishing security practices in a startup or rapidly scaling organisation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• 30 days of vacation for Europe, plus public holidays
• Benefits according to local country norms in Europe
• Pension contributions according to local country norms in Europe
• €1K per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
• Regular hackathons
• Remote-first with regular off-sites
• $100 per month to support open source projects

Before you apply

• We can sponsor visas to Germany
• For any other country, you need to have existing right to work
• Share a screenshot of your first workflow with us

About the company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for the new era of AI. The team has over 260 members working across Europe and the US.