Junior Software Engineer - Cloud Security

• Design, develop, and maintain security-focused backend services and APIs in Python.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms, including IAM policies, roles, and service permissions.
• Build tools and frameworks to secure customer-built data pipelines, ensuring consistent, enforced security policies across the platform.
• Integrate with AWS security services such as IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty to provide robust, automated security controls.
• Develop monitoring and alerting for security events, misconfigurations, and policy violations.
• Conduct security reviews of platform features, API designs, and infrastructure changes.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, data engineers, and frontend teams to deliver secure-by-default user experiences.
• Participate in threat modeling, architecture discussions, sprint planning, and code reviews.
• Contribute to automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines to enforce security best practices in deployments.

What should you bring along

• Strong experience with Python development, ideally in a cloud-native, serverless context.
• Solid understanding of AWS security services and best practices (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SCPs, Organizations).
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs with secure authentication and authorization.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) for defining and enforcing security policies.
• Understanding of secure software development practices, including threat modeling, secure code reviews, and vulnerability management.
• Commitment to writing well-tested, maintainable code, with unit and integration testing.
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD best practices.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, security-first mindset.
• Detail-oriented mindset.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Work often in CET timezone.
• Outstanding Analytical and Communication Skills MUST

Must have technical skills

• Python, ideally in a cloud-native, serverless context
• AWS security services and best practices (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SCPs, Organizations)

Good to have technical skills

• Experience with AWS Organizations and SCP policy design.
• Background in data platform security, including protecting data lakes, catalogs, and data pipelines.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2) and audit readiness.
• Experience integrating monitoring and security tooling (e.g. AWS Security Hub, SIEMs, custom dashboards).