Security engineer

Bending Spoons; Padova; Ibrido; EUR 66.000 - 189.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A digital company with growth ambition is looking for a Security Engineer. You'll conduct security audits, perform vulnerability testing, and design solutions to enhance security. Ideal candidates will possess strong reasoning ability, drive, team spirit, and proficiency in English. This role offers competitive pay, flexible hours, and a supportive learning environment.

Servizi

Flexible hours

Remote working options

Health insurance

Learning and training support

Relocation package

Generous parental support

Yearly retreat

Competenze

• Ability to solve complex problems and think from first principles.
• Demonstrated ambition and responsibility.
• Collaborative and reliable team player.
• Proficient in reading, writing, and speaking English.

Mansioni

• Conduct security audits to identify loopholes.
• Perform internal vulnerability testing to uncover weaknesses.
• Design solutions to strengthen protection across IT.
• Ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
• Stay updated on security trends and share knowledge.

Conoscenze

Reasoning ability

Drive

Team spirit

Proficiency in English

Descrizione del lavoro

Apply for the Security engineer role at Bending Spoons.

At Bending Spoons, we strive to build one of the all-time great companies. We acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and use our platform to grow them, invest proceeds, and expand. Our strategy combines capital allocation with hands‑on operation, enabling rapid, ethical growth.

Responsibilities

• Run security audits, identifying security loopholes and opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of security strategies.
• Perform internal vulnerability testing, uncovering any weaknesses in the systems and implementing countermeasures to ensure the integrity of all data.
• Identify company‑wide security challenges, design and implement solutions to strengthen protection and streamline security practices across IT and infrastructure areas.
• Collaborate closely with privacy experts to ensure the most robust and complete privacy compliance strategy possible, and to translate regulations into tech implementations.
• Stay up to date with security trends and threats. Share knowledge with Spooners to ensure data protection best practices and help foster a security‑focused culture across the company.

Qualifications

• Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist the influence of biases, and attend to details that matter.
• Drive. You’re extremely ambitious, initiative, effort, and tenacity match intensity. You feel deeply responsible and hold yourself to a high‑rising bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously and without expectation of reciprocity, support the best idea, and remain reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

Benefits

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll work in small, result‑oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals of outstanding potential—then place them in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and with the right skillset you’ll soon play an essential role in major projects.
• Competitive pay and access to equity. Typically, we offer individuals at the start of their career a salary of £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe. For a candidate that we assess as possessing considerable relevant experience, the salary on offer tends to be between £112,189 and £250,512 in London, and €107,837 and €188,848 elsewhere in Europe. Compensation varies by location and expected impact and grows rapidly as you gain experience and translate it into greater contributions. For individuals who demonstrate exceptional capability, we may offer compensation beyond the usual ranges. If offered a permanent contract, you can also receive some of your pay in company equity at a discounted price. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50 % tax cut.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited backing for learning and training, top‑of‑the‑market health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location. We help each Spooner set up the conditions to do their best work.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed‑term. Full‑time or part‑time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote.

Selection process

If you pass our screening, we’ll ask you to take on a few tests designed to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems. They’re challenging and may take several hours to complete. If you’re successful with those, we’ll invite you to a series of interviews.

We set the bar high and won’t extend an offer until we’re convinced we’ve found the right candidate. This is why a job may stay open for months or be reposted several times.

Studies suggest that women tend not to apply for a job if their CV isn’t a perfect fit. Here, talent takes precedence over experience, so if you like the role and think you could be awesome in time, go ahead and apply.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider any applicant for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—just let us know through this form.

Before you apply, if you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment. We’re extremely ambitious and hold ourselves—and one another—to a high standard. While this leads to extraordinary learning, achievement, and career growth, it also requires significant commitment.

To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of your long‑term work location. It’s the best way to rapidly absorb our company culture and build trust with your new teammates. We’ll support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you’re welcome to work from our offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what we agree on at the offer stage.

If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to give your best, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.