Senior Security Engineer

Voodoo; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib (100% covered)

Premium healthcare with SideCare

Wellness activities in Paris office

Remote Fridays

Job summary

Voodoo in Paris is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Engineering & Data team. You will architect automated security guardrails, embed secure-by-default practices, and collaborate across early design phases to ensure secure development.

You will contribute code for security fixes and build self-service tools while driving long-term strategy and incident readiness. The role emphasizes hands-on security work, threat modeling, and securing microservices, with a Paris-based and hybrid

Qualifications

• 5+ years troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, and automating complex tasks via CLI tools.
• 5+ years identifying security vulnerabilities, assessing risks, and crafting mitigations.
• 5+ years scripting and security-focused code reviews across common languages.
• Demonstrated expertise in recognizing vulnerabilities, threat vectors, and remediation techniques.
• Proven leadership or mentoring experience within an engineering team.
• Experience with threat modeling and comprehensive risk identification methodologies.
• Proven track record securing microservices and web services.
• Experience with identity provider servers and authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML).
• Experience with pentest and vulnerability assessments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, construct, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths for secure-by-default development environments.
• Collaborate with development teams early in ideation to embed secure coding practices and architecture.
• Develop automated, continuous assessment capabilities to replace manual reviews at scale.
• Contribute code for security fixes and paved-path solutions alongside engineers.
• Build scalable, self-service security tools for teams to detect and remediate risks.
• Implement preventive and detective controls for ongoing security assurance.
• Drive long-term security strategy with stakeholders and participate in on-call rotations.
• Leverage AI technologies to streamline threat detection and scalable system protection.

Skills

Security engineering

Scripting

Threat modeling

Leadership

Penetration testing

Vulnerability assessment

Microservices security

Identity providers

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

ArgoCD

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Atlantis

Grafana

OAuth2/OIDC

Job description

About Voodoo

Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.

Team

The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the impressive growth of their gaming and consumer apps which allow Voodoo to stay at the forefront of the mobile industry. The Engineering & Data team plays a key role in Voodoo’s long-term strategy. It enables Voodoo to both accelerate product diversification and provide a state of the art growth-engine to distribute and scale our games. They create innovative solutions that drive growth with a pragmatic approach, ranging from simple searching to complex machine learning systems.

Role

We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our Engineering & Data team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for a wide variety of topics:

• Security Engineering & Guardrails: Architect, construct, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths to foster secure-by-default development environments.

• Shift-Left Architecture Guidance: Collaborate with development teams during the early ideation and design phases to embed secure coding practices and architecture from inception.

• Continuous & Automated Assessment: Develop automated, continuous assessment capabilities that replace manual reviews and scale seamlessly across the business unit.

• Hands-on Code Contribution: Work directly alongside engineers to contribute code for security fixes and paved-path solutions, ensuring security remains the simplest route.

• Self-Service Tooling: Partner with developers to build scalable, self-service security tools that empower teams to detect and remediate risks independently.

• Preventive & Detective Controls: Implement robust preventive and detective controls to deliver ongoing assurance rather than point-in-time security checks.

• Strategic Collaboration & Incident Response: Drive long-term security strategy with key stakeholders while actively participating in periodic on-call rotations for incident support.

• AI-Driven Security Innovation: Utilize AI technologies and methodologies to streamline threat detection, accelerate security evaluations, and advance scalable system protection.

Profile (Must Have)

• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, and automating complex tasks via command-line tools

• 5+ years of experience identifying security vulnerabilities, assessing risks, and constructing mitigation strategies

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with scripting, software development, and security-focused code reviews across standard programming languages

• Demonstrated expertise in recognizing industry-standard security vulnerabilities, understanding threat vector patterns, and applying effective remediation techniques

• Proven track record in a leadership or guidance role, such as a technical lead, mentor, or engineering team lead

• Proficiency in applying threat modeling and comprehensive risk identification methodologies

• Proven track record securing microservices, service-oriented architectures, and web services

• Experience with identity provider servers and authentication protocols (such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML)

• Experience with penetration testing (pentest) and vulnerability assessments

• Self-starter with strong ownership, accountability, and ability to work autonomously and collaboratively across teams and organizations in a fast‑paced environment.

Profile (Nice to Have)

• Advocate for security standards with clarity and empathy.

• Familiarity with AI/ML workflows and agents.

Our Stack

Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Atlantis, Grafana, Claude Code, Trivy, Conftest / OPA, AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO), Okta, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS KMS, AWS WAFv2, AWS Shield, AWS ACM, AWS GuardDuty, Sealed Secrets, Kyverno, cert-manager

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience

• Swile Lunch voucher

• Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo)

• Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, 100% covered for you and your family

• Wellness activities in our Paris office

• Remote Fridays