Security Product and Application Engineer

Paris · Hybrid

About this role

What You'll Do:

You'll join Criteo's Application & Product Security team, helping secure the products we build and operate. Working closely with Product Engineering, Platform teams, and other Security teams, you'll contribute to the security strategy of your domain while remaining hands-on. This role combines technical expertise, engineering execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Partner with Product and Platform teams to design and build secure systems and services

  • Act as a trusted security advisor, guiding teams on secure design, threat modelling, and vulnerability management

  • Identify, assess, prioritise, and help remediate application security risks across the organisation

  • Contribute hands-on to security initiatives, including architecture reviews, security tooling, automation, and incident response activities

  • Help define and evolve security standards, best practices, and KPIs to continuously improve the security posture of your domain

  • Drive the adoption of security-by-design and shift-left security practices throughout the software development lifecycle

  • Lead complex technical projects and security initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders across multiple teams

  • Support security awareness efforts by sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and promoting secure engineering practices across the organisation

  • Collaborate with Security, Product, and Platform teams to improve security processes, tooling, and operational excellence

Who You Are:

  • You bring experience in Security Engineering, or have significantly contributed to application or product security initiatives in previous roles

  • You have a background in Product Engineering or SRE / Platform Engineering and a strong understanding of modern software development practices

  • You have experience leading complex technical projects and driving cross-functional initiatives in large-scale environments

  • You are comfortable acting as a subject matter expert on security topics and advising teams on risks, trade-offs, and best practices

  • You have experience securing distributed systems, cloud-native environments, and modern application architectures

  • You enjoy combining hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and technical leadership

  • You influence without authority, building trust and alignment across diverse stakeholders and teams

  • You demonstrate strong ownership, accountability, and sound judgement when handling sensitive security topics

  • You are passionate about improving security through scalable solutions, automation, and collaboration

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!

Who We Are:

We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.

We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.

What We Offer:

🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.

Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.

Company at a glance

Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO) is the global commerce intelligence platform that drives performance for brands, agencies, retailers, and publishers. Built on proprietary commerce data from more than $1 trillion in annual sales and two decades of AI innovation, Criteo helps companies across the ecosystem make smarter decisions and achieve better outcomes, while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers.

With thousands of clients and deep partnerships across global retail and digital commerce, Criteo provides the technology and insights businesses need to compete and grow.

For more information, please visit criteo.com.

Team Size1,001-5,000 employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustryAdvertising Services
Location
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Hybrid Working Model
  • Learning Programs
  • Mentorship
  • Career Development Programs
  • Health Benefits
  • Wellness Perks
  • Mental Health Support
  • Performance-based Rewards
  • Family-friendly Policies
  • Equity Potential

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