Senior Security Engineer, Aleph Alpha
+ Virtual Stock Option Plan
Office located in Berlin, Heidelberg
AI-powered research and application company
Posted today
AI-powered research and application company
101-200 employees
Posted today
+ Virtual Stock Option Plan
Office located in Berlin, Heidelberg
101-200 employees
Company mission
To research and build the foundational technology for an era of strong AI.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience securing cloud-native environments at scale, including Tier 2 providers
- Strong understanding of DevOps/SRE practices, with hands-on experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and security tooling (Terraform, OPA, Checkov, tfsec, etc.)
- Knowledge of identity and access management (IAM), cloud networking, secrets management, and system hardening
- Solid grasp of incident response workflows, with experience leading investigations and containment
- Comfortable writing scripts or tools in Python, Bash, or Go to automate security processes
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills—able to act as a bridge between security and engineering
- Bonus: Experience with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, IC4), Kubernetes security, or supply chain hardening
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically and quickly under pressure
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and other teams
- Proactive, self-motivated, and a strong sense of ownership over the security initiatives and their outcomes
- A growth mindset, with a passion for security and a commitment to continuous learning
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our team and play a key role in building secure, scalable systems alongside our DevOps and SRE teams
- This role is for someone who’s passionate about embedding security into infrastructure and development workflows and not just reacting to issues but proactively designing safer systems
- You'll be the go-to expert for cloud security, secure automation, and incident response across our platform
- Design, implement, and maintain secure architecture across our cloud infrastructure (IAM, networking, secrets management, and service-to-service security)
- Integrate security into our CI/CD pipelines with automated scanning, secrets detection, and policy enforcement
- Review Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.) for security risks and implement guardrails using tools like OPA, tfsec, or Checkov
- Be part of threat modelling sessions and risk assessments for infrastructure and engineering initiatives
- Monitor for security anomalies and lead incident response efforts in partnership with the SRE team
- Build internal tooling and automation to scale security best practices across teams
- Educate engineers and operations teams through documentation, playbooks, and lightweight training sessions
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define and execute a long-term cloud and infrastructure security strategy
- Bring security awareness across the org, educating product and engineering teams on secure coding practices, common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10), and security best practices
Our take
AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Aleph Alpha is a company that researches, develops and “operationalises'' large AI systems toward generalisable AI. The company offers GPT-3-like text (autoregressive language model using deep learning to produce human-like text) vision and strategy AI models.
Germany-based Aleph Alpha are the only European company pursuing this kind of work in AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. The company works with businesses to use its technology and filter it into a wide range of creative uses.
Recent funding heralds a new chapter of growth and innovation for Aleph Alpha. The infusion of capital will fuel the company's pursuit of groundbreaking research and advanced product development. With a focus on expanding academic partnerships and enhancing reproducibility, Aleph Alpha remains steadfast in its mission to drive technological progress.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2023
$125m
SERIES B
Nov 2023
$375m
GRANT
Total funding: $647.3m
Company benefits
- 30 Days of paid vacation
- Flexible working hours
- Join a dynamic start-up and a rapidly growing team
- Work with international industry and science experts
- Take on responsibility and shape our company and technology
- Regular team events
Company HQ
Wieblingen, Heidelberg, Germany
Leadership
Jonas Andrulis
(CEO)Previously worked as a manager at Deloitte, was Founder and CEO at Pallas Ludens GmbH, and worked as a Sr. AI R&D Eng. Manager at Apple.
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