security engineer for real estate platforms

ImmoScout24 is Germany’s leading real estate platform. It connects homeowners, property seekers, and agents through a digital ecosystem serving the German and Austrian real estate markets.

• Own the technical direction and engineering outcomes for product, cloud infrastructure, and AI security, helping shape the Security Engineering roadmap and priorities;
• Design, implement, and evolve reusable controls, guardrails, and security-as-code patterns across cloud, identity, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD;
• Lead threat modelling and security architecture reviews for high-impact products, platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities;
• Create paved roads and self-service security capabilities that reduce developer friction and support secure-by-default delivery;
• Use evidence and meaningful metrics to prioritise investments, demonstrate control effectiveness, and communicate risks and trade-offs;
• Act as a trusted technical authority and escalation point, mentor engineers, challenge constructively, and raise security capability across Scout24.

• Hands-on security engineering and technical leadership experience in a medium-to-large engineering organisation, including ownership of complex initiatives from direction through implementation;
• Deep expertise in application or cloud security, with broad knowledge of infrastructure, identity, and data security;
• Experience building security controls for cloud-native environments, ideally AWS, including containerised workloads, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD systems;
• Strong software engineering and automation skills, with the ability to write production-quality code or tooling using Python, Terraform, or comparable alternatives;
• Practical experience with threat modelling, secure architecture, and embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle;
• Excellent judgement and communication skills, including the ability to turn ambiguous risks into clear decisions, balance security with customer and operational impact, and influence without formal authority;
• Self-driven, adaptable, and pragmatic working style, with curiosity and a continuous-improvement mindset;
• Experience leveraging AI tools for problem-solving and productivity while maintaining effective human oversight and judgement;
• Nice to have: Hands-on experience securing AI-enabled products, LLM applications, agents, machine-learning platforms, or supporting data pipelines; experience with Kubernetes and modern application, cloud, or software-supply-chain security tooling; experience protecting sensitive data and implementing technical controls under GDPR, ISO 27001, or comparable requirements.

• Competitive salary package and a bonus on top;
• 30 Days of vacation per year;
• Possibility to work from abroad for 10 days per year, subject to company and team business requirements;
• Relocation agency support with the visa process and an attractive relocation package;
• Plus membership for tenants on ImmoScout24;
• Dedicated learning time, online courses, book challenges, structured feedback, Lunch & Learn events, and individual career paths;
• Professional family service, including childcare support and emergency childcare;
• Dogs allowed at the office upon approval;
• Subsidised public transport or Job Bikes;
• Company pension scheme with an attractive subsidy;
• Barrier-free office in central Berlin with an on-site gym, courses, napping room, rooftop terrace, organic coffee, cafeteria, green electricity, and weekly massage therapist;
• Life Situation Coaching and regular health check-ups.