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As a digital-first, cloud-driven organisation, cybersecurity is a critical enabler of our business, products, and services.\nWe are looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen and evolve our enterprise security capabilities. This role focuses on designing, implementing, operating, and continuously improving security controls that protect our workforce, data, identities, devices, networks, and digital services.\nThis is not a traditional operations-focused security role. We are looking for an engineer who enjoys building, automating, and improving security capabilities at scale while working closely with technology teams across the organisation.\nLet us describe the challenge we offer\nAs a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will play a key role in strengthening Polestar’s enterprise security posture and advancing our Zero Trust journey. You will help build scalable security capabilities that protect users, devices, identities, data, and enterprise services in a modern cloud-first environment.\nThis role is located at: Polestar Headquarters, Gothenburg, Sweden.\nWe believe in empowerment and support flexible working hours and a hybrid way of working.\nWhat you’ll do\nYou will work across security engineering, automation, and operational resilience, partnering with teams throughout the organisation to embed security by design and continuously improve enterprise security capabilities.\nThis includes:\nImplementing and continuously improving security capabilities across endpoint, identity, network, collaboration, and data protection domains.\n\nSupporting the deployment, optimisation, and governance of enterprise security platforms and controls.\n\nBuilding and maintaining security automations that reduce manual effort and improve operational effectiveness.\n\nImproving detection, response, and resilience capabilities across the enterprise environment.\n\nPartnering with infrastructure, workplace, cloud, networking, and engineering teams to embed security by design.\n\nDriving the implementation of Zero Trust principles, including strong identity controls, least privilege, continuous verification, and network segmentation.\n\nSupporting the secure adoption of AI technologies and helping establish technical guardrails that reduce risk while enabling innovation.\n\nImproving data protection and information security capabilities to ensure sensitive information is protected throughout its lifecycle.\n\nContributing to security architecture decisions and helping define future security capabilities and standards.\n\nEvaluating new technologies and continuously improving security tooling, integrations, and processes.\n\nServing as a Tier 3 security engineering escalation point for complex incidents and high-priority security events.\n\nParticipating in a shared on-call rotation supporting our Security Operations Centre (SOC) for approximately five weeks annually.\n\nWho you are\nYou are a hands-on cybersecurity engineer who enjoys solving technical security challenges and building scalable security solutions.\nYou combine strong security engineering expertise with a pragmatic mindset and understand how to balance security, usability, and business objectives. You are comfortable working across engineering, operations, and automation, and can translate security requirements into effective technical controls.\nMost importantly, you view security tooling and processes as systems that can be engineered, automated, and continuously improved.\nYou bring:\nAt least 5 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity engineering.\n\nStrong technical understanding of enterprise security architectures and controls.\n\nExperience implementing security solutions across endpoint, identity, network, and data protection domains.\n\nExperience building automations, integrations, or custom tooling to improve security operations and engineering outcomes.\n\nStrong scripting and problem-solving skills.\n\nExperience working in cloud-first and modern enterprise environments.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nA passion for continuous improvement and a builder’s mindset.\n\nYou have experience with:\nMicrosoft security technologies.\n\nData protection, data security, privacy, and DLP.\n\nEndpoint security and device management.\n\nNetwork security and Zero Trust architectures.\n\nEmail and collaboration security.\n\nSecurity automation, orchestration, and scripting.\n\nInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and secure configuration management.\n\nIn addition, you may also have experience with:\nIdentity, access, and privilege management.\n\nPublic Key Infrastructure (PKI) and cryptographic controls.\n\nAI security, governance, and risk management.\n\nYou are motivated by creating meaningful impact and helping strengthen security capabilities across identities, endpoints, networks, and data. You enjoy increasing automation, improving resilience, expanding Zero Trust adoption, and enabling the secure and responsible use of emerging technologies, including AI.\nPeople at Polestar\nWe know that change is needed. We also know that each one of us can help bring about that change. Our commitment to becoming climate-neutral by 2040 is just as important to us as being inclusive, diverse, and innovative. Together, we are creating, collaborating, and experimenting to usher in a new era of sustainable mobility. We are an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in.\nIs this you?\nIf you are interested in joining the Polestar crew, don’t wait to submit your application. As part of our recruitment process, you may be asked to complete assessments and participate in background checks relevant to the position. We apply a continuous selection process, and the job posting will remain open until the position is filled.\nAre you ready for the journey? 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