# Principal Security Engineer (All Gender)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM We are seeking an experienced, high-impact Principal Security Engineer to join our Operational Security (OpSec) function as an individual contributor to lead our technical security strategy and regulatory compliance posture across our e-commerce and financial technology systems. In this role, you will bridge deep software engineering and technical system design with regulatory compliance and governance (e.g., DORA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001), operational resilience and cross-departmental alignment. You will serve as the primary technical authority on complex security architectures, change management guardrails, overall security posture and risk assessments for critical financial and cloud infrastructure. WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING) Security Architecture & Technical Change Governance System Design & Reviews: Function as the technical security reviewer and gatekeeper for high-criticality architecture changes. Strong understanding of network and application security, cryptographic primitives and identity and access management. Secure Engineering Standards: Maintain and enforce baseline configuration standards across cloud, server, and endpoint assets and sec

- **Id**: 3744050
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zalando-principal-security-engineer-all-gender>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Berlin, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T12:32:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T17:03:07Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T17:03:07Z
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5208
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Paid volunteering days, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Commerce

## Company

- **Id**: 2820183
- **Name**: Privé by Zalando
- **Domain**: zalando-prive.fr
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zalando-prive>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 115
- **Ghost share**: 0.009
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.6
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 8
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GPG** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T12:32:29Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-08T06:00:01Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T17:03:07Z

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