Senior Secruity Engineer (/m/f/d)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026. Axel Springer scores B on the Alion truth index.
Our teams build and operate digital products and platforms at scale. In this role, you work closely with product, platform and engineering teams to strengthen security across the entire software development lifecycle. You help shape secure architectures, improve security processes and enable teams to build innovative products with confidence. At the same time, you stay on top of emerging technologies and bring new security approaches, including AI-related capabilities, into our products and platforms.
We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five Essentials are the values that connect us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.
- collaborate with product and platform teams to design and implement security solutions
- manage and analyze bug bounty findings and support teams in resolving identified risks
- train software engineers in vulnerability analysis, secure development practices and secure AI usage
- develop automated security testing procedures for code builds, deployments and delivery pipelines
- create and maintain guidelines for IT security, security testing and security tooling
- promote secure web application and cloud platform standards across products and teams
- communicate security risks and mitigation strategies while driving adoption of modern security technologies
- minimum 4+ years of professional experience in IT security
- focus on web application security or cloud infrastructure security
- experience in application development with modern programming languages, scripting languages and frameworks
- deep expertise in security challenges related to containers, distributed systems, large-scale web applications and AI systems
- strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics convincingly
- experience delivering talks, workshops and security awareness initiatives
- your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
- Employee offers that suit you and your life situation: Whether it's a discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing, a bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service), childcare facilities or two modern in-house kindergartens
- 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
- our free food offer: we offer free lunch in our canteens
- we offer guidance on the administrative side of relocation and visa processes through our relocation agency
- collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
- from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/
The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq
Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde