Security Tech Lead Manager | Relocation Offered

Relocate.me; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Advanced relocation package

Flight ticket

Money for moving expenses

Housing search assistance

Visa services

Adaptation tips

Job summary

Catawiki in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is seeking a Security Tech Lead Manager to guide the security team and shape the engineering security strategy across applications, cloud infrastructure, and delivery pipelines. You will own the security roadmap, drive threat modelling, improve vulnerability management, and collaborate with Product, Platform Engineering, Legal, IT and Trust & Safety.

This role includes a comprehensive relocation package, visa services, housing search assistance and flight

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on security engineering in software or cloud environments.
• Experience managing engineers, performance reviews, and career development.
• Owned a security roadmap and coordinated across engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of app and cloud security, IAM and secrets management.
• Proficient in Ruby, Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Excellent communication with engineers and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the security team with regular 1:1s and reviews.
• Own the security engineering roadmap and prioritise work.
• Stay hands-on building security controls and reviewing code.
• Partner with Product and Platform Eng to design secure systems.
• Improve vulnerability management and remediation tracking.
• Enhance CI/CD and IaC security checks and tooling.
• Coordinate incident response contributions and lessons learned.
• Collaborate with Legal, IT and Trust & Safety on controls and audits.
• Measure progress and communicate risks to stakeholders.

Skills

Security engineering

People management

Security roadmap

Threat modelling

Ruby/Python/Go

Clear communication

Tools

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Security Tech Lead Manager

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Catawiki

• Advanced relocation package


• Adaptation tips


• Flight ticket


• Money for moving expenses


• Housing search assistance


• Visa services

About Catawiki

Catawiki was founded in 2008. It was originally designed as a website where collectors could manage and keep track of their collections online. Visitors can still add new items to the existing catalogue of collectibles. Unsurprisingly, the name Catawiki is a combination of the words ‘catalogue’ and ‘wiki’. In 2011, Catawiki began hosting weekly auctions in various categories, including art, antiques, classic cars, watches, jewellery, fashion, books, and stamps.

What You Will Do

• Manage and develop the security team through regular one-to-ones, timely feedback, performance reviews and career development. Address underperformance and support hiring and onboarding.


• Own the security engineering roadmap. Prioritise work based on risk, business needs and team capacity, delegate effectively and remove blockers to delivery.


• Stay hands‑on by building security controls and automation, reviewing code and guiding technical decisions across applications, cloud infrastructure and software delivery.


• Partner with Product and Platform Engineering early in design. Lead threat modelling and security reviews, and help teams choose secure approaches that are practical to implement.


• Improve vulnerability management. Assess findings in the context of exposure and business impact, agree remediation priorities with system owners and track issues through resolution.


• Improve security checks in CI/CD and infrastructure as code, including dependency and secret scanning. Reduce false positives and help engineers act on findings.


• Coordinate the security team’s technical contribution to incident response and investigations. Turn lessons from incidents into improvements to detection, response and preventive controls.


• Work with Legal, IT and Trust & Safety on security controls, policies and audit evidence where responsibilities overlap.


• Measure and communicate progress through remediation times, control coverage and adoption. Explain remaining risks, delivery progress and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.

Your qualification

• You have substantial hands‑on security engineering experience in a software or cloud environment and have implemented and operated security capabilities in production.


• You have previously managed engineers as direct reports, including performance reviews, career development and difficult feedback. You can balance people management with technical contribution.


• You have owned a security roadmap or programme, translated priorities into deliverable work and coordinated implementation across engineering teams.


• You have strong knowledge of application and cloud security, including identity and access management, secrets management and secure software development.


• You are experienced in threat modelling, secure code and design reviews, vulnerability prioritisation and practical incident response.


• You can develop or automate in Ruby, Python, Go or a similar language, are comfortable reviewing backend code and have integrated security controls into engineering workflows.


• You communicate clearly with engineers and non‑technical partners, explain risk in business terms and gain support for decisions when priorities compete.

Helpful Experience

• Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Terraform or similar infrastructure tooling.


• Experience in a marketplace, e‑commerce or another software product business, including account and API security.


• Experience securing AI‑enabled applications, agents or data pipelines, or using AI to improve security engineering workflows.

What we offer

• Create a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope and directly impacts both our customers and the business.


• Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression.


• A culture of connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer‑friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.


• Celebrate life’s moments with us. You’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location.

Our Offices and Way of Working

Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office‑based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office‑based.