Senior Software Engineer, Security & Cloud Observability

Hoxhunt; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 67,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extensive healthcare

Helsinki office with gym and swimming

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Hoxhunt is seeking an experienced security-focused engineer to own the security event/log pipeline on GCP, including detections, alerting and dashboards. You will extend automation, integrate scanning tools, and harden cloud security with SRE/Platform collaboration.

A strong emphasis on code quality, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling drives the role. You will work within the Product Security team, collaborating with SRE/Platform and product engineers to deliver secure, scalable security tooling

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience with Google Cloud IAM, networking, logging and eventing services, containers and Kubernetes.
• Production experience in at least one of TypeScript, Python or Go, and familiarity with the others.
• Experience building data or event pipelines, observability systems, or detection tooling.
• Genuine interest in security; a formal security title is not required.
• Experience using AI tools in daily workflow.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture of security event/log pipeline on GCP and the detections, alerting and dashboards on top of it, as code reviewed, tested, deployed through CI/CD.
• Own and extend security automation: vulnerability triager, remediation nudging automation, and scanning-stack integrations (GitHub Advanced Security, dependency ownership, issue sync).
• Build and improve tooling our GRC function relies on.
• Turn recurring manual security work into code, e.g. automate churned-customer data-removal monitoring end to end.
• Harden cloud security architecture with SRE/Platform: IAM and least privilege, network egress, secrets, IaC.
• Drive technical decisions and mentor through code review; raise the bar on security software.
• Contribute to agentic security tooling alongside the team.

Skills

GCP IAM

Networking

Logging & Eventing

Containers

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Python

Go

Observability systems

Security tooling

AI tooling usage

Tools

GitHub Advanced Security

CI/CD tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Hoxhunt is seeking an experienced security-focused engineer to own the security event/log pipeline on GCP, including detections, alerting and dashboards. You will extend automation, integrate scanning tools, and harden cloud security with SRE/Platform collaboration.

A strong emphasis on code quality, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling drives the role. You will work within the Product Security team, collaborating with SRE/Platform and product engineers to deliver secure, scalable security tooling