Security Engineer — AppSec, GRC & AI Security (Remote EU)

David Kennedy Recruitment; Lazio; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote from Europe

Direct collaboration with engineering

Hands-on security ownership

Job summary

David Kennedy Recruitment is helping a rapidly growing technology company onboard a Security Engineer to own security operations within R&D. The role focuses on AppSec, GRC and AI security, with the team handling governance, risk, and compliance across a scale‑up environment.

You will work remotely from Europe, collaborating with engineering leadership and ensuring effective security across applications, AI platforms, and vendor interactions.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years hands-on security engineering experience.
• Strong application security experience including code reviews and remediation.
• Proven experience conducting or coordinating security audits and penetration tests.
• Comfortable coding and working directly with Git/GitHub.
• Practical scripting or automation skills, ideally Python or Bash.
• Previous AI/security-focused scale-up experience preferred.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Based in Europe, with approximately 80% overlap with CET working hours.
• Comfortable with occasional evening/weekend security monitoring.
• Fully comfortable working with adult/NSFW content as part of daily responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Application security: review code, fix vulnerabilities, work with developers in Git/GitHub, coordinate external pen tests and audits.
• Governance, risk and compliance: build and maintain the security risk register, assess exposure, support audit follow-up, prioritise fixes by risk and impact.
• Monitoring and awareness: watch alerts and threats, run awareness programmes and phishing simulations, provide evening/weekend cover.
• IT security and access: manage onboarding/offboarding, device security and access controls.
• AI security: track risks to generative AI platforms and third-party provider vulnerabilities.

Skills

Code reviews

Vulnerability remediation

Security audits

Git & GitHub

Python

Bash

English communication

TZ CET overlap

Tools

Git & GitHub

Job description

David Kennedy Recruitment is helping a rapidly growing technology company onboard a Security Engineer to own security operations within R&D. The role focuses on AppSec, GRC and AI security, with the team handling governance, risk, and compliance across a scale‑up environment.

You will work remotely from Europe, collaborating with engineering leadership and ensuring effective security across applications, AI platforms, and vendor interactions.