Senior Security Engineer managing application and product security at Preply. Collaborating closely with engineering teams to enhance security across all stages of development.
Responsibilities
Own application and product security, partnering closely with engineering teams to improve security outcomes across the full SDLC
Act as a strong technical voice in how we design, build, ship, and operate secure systems, driving initiatives end-to-end through influence, collaboration, and hands-on execution
Work hands-on with our core backend stack (Python, Django), reading and writing code, contributing improvements, and building automation to scale security with product engineering teams to embed security into planning, design, and delivery, without slowing teams down
Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews to identify risk early and propose pragmatic mitigations
Lead and facilitate threat modeling for new features and significant changes, and translate results into prioritized engineering work
Improve the secure SDLC end-to-end: requirements, secure design, implementation guidance, testing, release, and operational readiness
Build “paved paths” and guardrails that make secure choices the default (libraries, patterns, templates, CI checks)
Mature code and application security tooling, including selection, rollout, and adoption: SAST, SCA (We now use Snyk), secret scanning, and relevant DAST/API testing where it adds signal
Integrate findings into developer workflows with clear ownership, SLAs, and low-friction remediation
Proactively discover security issues through code review support, automation, security testing, and targeted assessments
Improve vulnerability management for application and product security findings: triage, prioritization, remediation, verification, and trend reporting
Create and deliver training and enablement for engineers (secure coding, common pitfalls, new patterns), and help grow security champions across teams
Partner with GRC to ensure security requirements and controls are feasible, well understood, and evidenced through real engineering practice
Lead engineering wide initiatives, managing stakeholders and aligning with business to deliver high impact results
Requirements
Strong experience in application and product security in modern web environments, with a track record of improving security outcomes across the SDLC
Strong coding ability and comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (reading, writing, reviewing, and proposing improvements)
Demonstrated experience influencing engineering teams through design reviews, threat modeling, and practical guidance
Strong understanding of common web and API security risks (OWASP Top 10, auth and session risks, SSRF, injection, access control issues, secrets exposure, unsafe deserialization, etc.) and how they show up in real systems
Experience selecting, introducing, and scaling security tooling in CI/CD (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, and related controls), including tuning to reduce noise and improve developer adoption
Ability to turn findings into action: clear severity, ownership, prioritization, and verification, with an emphasis on automation and repeatability
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, Data teams, and GRC
Business-oriented mindset and comfort making cost-benefit tradeoffs
Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and partner effectively with SRE during incidents
Benefits
A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development
A competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance
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