Product Security Engineer

About the opportunity

We are seeking a Product Security Engineer to empower our engineering teams to design and build secure software across our diverse product portfolio. While this role includes integrating advanced security practices into cutting-edge technologies—such as Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLM), and data governance systems - it also focuses on ensuring the security of our microservice architecture and mobile application. Your work will help deliver robust security for every feature and service we provide to our customers.

The Product Security team is part of N26’s Security Engineering Segment, which also includes Infrastructure Security, Trust & Safety and Security Operations. Together, we uphold N26’s security standards by embedding security into every stage of the product lifecycle.

As we embrace emerging technologies like GenAI and LLMs, this role will play a key part in safeguarding sensitive data, aligning with data governance principles, and addressing risks unique to AI-driven products. At the same time, you’ll ensure our broader product ecosystem remains secure, scalable, and resilient. Additionally, you will contribute to the ongoing enhancement of our Product Security Programs, providing proactive guidance to engineering teams to anticipate and counter evolving threats.

In this role, you will

Apply your knowledge of security architecture to help software engineers build secure products and services across a diverse technology stack, including microservices, mobile applications, and cutting-edge AI-driven solutions.

Collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand their application security needs, including those related to emerging technologies like Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLM).

Perform application security design reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews, ensuring security principles are embedded in every stage of the development lifecycle.

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