Application Security Engineer (all genders)
About this role
Company Description
ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.
Job Description
We are looking for an Application Security Engineer (all genders) to join the Application Security circle of our IT-Security unit, dedicated to protecting our online shop, our corporate systems and our customers.
In this role, you will hack internal systems, design and implement security measures to safeguard our infrastructure, applications, and data. You will work closely with other security engineers, developers and IT teams to ensure security best practices, automate security processes, and respond to emerging threats.
Conduct regular penetration tests and code reviews
Advise in the setup and maintenance of applications and infrastructure (usually hosted in AWS/Kubernetes)
Triage and respond to monitoring events
Optimization and automation of security auditing processes. This could also include setting up attack infrastructure, writing scripts in Python and implementing security scanning in Gitlab CI
Take part in some incident response activities within the SOC, which include occasional 24/7 on-call
Qualifications
Application security
Security engineering
Technical Project Management skills
Threat modeling
Penetration testing
Secure code review
Cloud experience: AWS, Bonus: GCP, Azure
Programming experience: Python required, Bonus: PHP, JavaScript, Go
Red teaming is a plus
Nice to have
Certificates:
Offensive Security certificates; e.g. OSCP, OSWP, etc.
Knowledge of Laravel / PHP.
Ability to read and understand JavaScript
Ability to read and understand Go
Experience with incident response activities
Experience with web application firewalls, CDN providers, e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai
Experience with Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines
Additional Information
Your perks at a glance: Visit our benefits page.
Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!
A Place Where You Can Be You
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.
Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.
What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.
Company at a glance
The ABOUT YOU Group is an international e-commerce group, organized into different strategic business units: The online fashion store ABOUT YOU represents the Group's business-to-consumer business. With over 15 million active customers, ABOUT YOU is one of the largest online retailers for fashion and lifestyle in Europe and the leading provider of a personalized shopping experience on smartphones. In the award-winning ABOUT YOU app and on aboutyou.com, customers find inspiration and a range of approximately 1 million items from around 5,000 brands. The Group's business-to-business operations are largely handled by SCAYLE GmbH. SCAYLE offers a modern, cloud-based enterprise shop system that enables brands and retailers to scale their digital businesses quickly and flexibly, and adapt to growing customer needs. Around 350 online stores choose SCAYLE's Commerce technology under a license model, including leading brands and retailers such as Harrods, Manchester United, Deichmann, Fielmann, and FC Bayern. The newest subsidiary of the ABOUT YOU Group, SCAYLE Payments GmbH, complements the Group's portfolio of payment services. SCAYLE Payments enables the seamless integration of modern payment solutions and helps to scale customers' digital business models. Since 2025, ABOUT YOU has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Zalando SE.
For further information, please visit: corporate.aboutyou.de/en.
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ABOUT YOU Holding AG
Domstrasse 10
20095 Hamburg
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
https://corporate.aboutyou.de/de
Local court: Amtsgericht Hamburg
Registration number: HRB 189825
Management Board: Tarek Müller, Hannes Wiese, Sebastian Betz
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: David Schröder
Top Benefits
- Team lunches
- Afterwork drinks
- Company events
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