Security Lead

bunq; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid setup with 2 days remote / week

Travel budget: €1.5k after 2 years, €3

€3k after 4 years travel budget

bunq Academy and €1500 annual learning

MacBook for work

Lunches from in-house chefs

Pension plan option

Job summary

bunq is seeking a Security Lead in Amsterdam. You will own security end-to-end, architecting an AI‑driven defense while hands‑on with a team of three engineers. The role emphasizes proactive protection, incident readiness, and reducing attack surfaces.

The position is hybrid: after 3 months in‑office, you’ll work 2 days remotely and 3 days in‑office weekly, with a focus on real security improvements and collaboration with the Technology department.

Qualifications

• Leads and coaches security engineers.
• Thinks beyond current threats, focusing on AI-driven risks.
• Consolidates and reduces attack surface in the infrastructure.
• Oversees vulnerability management and monitoring.
• Ensures patches are applied within SLA.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach security engineers (3 people).
• Rethink protection against AI-driven threats.
• Simplify infrastructure to reduce attack surface.
• Implement better segmentation and defense layers.
• Oversee vulnerability management, monitoring, incidents, and awareness.
• Ensure timely patching across systems.

Skills

Security leadership

Infrastructure security

AI threat defense

Incident response

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

ISO27001

Job description

Ready to get shit done?

Keeping users money and data safe is the job. As our Security Lead, you take end-to-end responsibility for security at bunq. AI is changing the game: attackers find holes and write exploits faster than ever, so we need to rethink how we protect ourselves, and we need AI to fight AI threats. You will be the architect of that new way of working, and you will build it hands-on, together with a team of 3 security engineers.

• Security Lead
• Hybrid
• Location: Amsterdam
• Working hours: 40 hours per week
• Department: Technology

This is an operational, technical role. The policy, compliance and audit work (including ISO27001 and PCI-DSS) sits with our Information Security Officer, so you can spend your time on real security improvements.

Take Ownership:

In your first 6 months, you will:

• Lead and coach 3 security engineers.
• Rethink how bunq protects itself against new, AI-driven threats.
• Simplify our infrastructure to reduce the attack surface.
• Implement better segmentation, monitoring and multiple layers of defense.
• Oversee security vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response and security awareness.
• Make sure all systems are patched within SLA, and never lower the quality bar.

This challenge is perfect for you if

• You anticipate threats nobody knows about yet, and you turn that into concrete defenses.
• You design a new way of working and convince others to adopt it.
• You are structured: you keep a full overview of your landscape and prioritize what has the biggest impact.
• You have deep, hands-on experience in infrastructure and security architecture, and you implement solutions yourself.
• You are an AI architect: you see what AI makes possible and use it to move faster than the threats.
• You have hands‑on experience as a Security Engineer, and you communicate clearly with regulators and auditors.
• You stay calm under pressure.
• Nice to have: experience coaching and growing engineers by leading by example.

All new hires are subject to Pre‑employment Screening (PES), which includes checks conducted by our third‑party partner, Zinc.

Your space to perform

We give you the space and the tools you need to succeed

• Great, international colleagues who share your mindset
• Hybrid setup: after 3 months in‑office, work 2 days remote, 3 days in‑office weekly.
• Digital Nomad Program: After your first year, enjoy up to 20 days per year to work while traveling, combining flexibility with strong team collaboration
• We reward tenure with a dedicated travel budget: €1.5k after 2 years and €3k after 4 years to visit another core office.
• We support growth with bunq Academy and €1500 annual learning budget
• Massive discount with Urban Sports Club
• Travel expenses are covered whether you come walking or by bike, bus or car (though we prefer green choices)
• A MacBook so you can Get Shit Done with us
• Delicious lunches from our fabulous in‑house chefs with vegan and vegetarian options
• An optional pension plan with monthly contribution from bunq
• Monthly contribution to your phone and internet bills
• Friday drinks and other celebrations - bunq style