Security engineer

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At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate, and adheres to high ethical standards.

To achieve this objective, we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them as successful as possible by leveraging our platform that comprises our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. We then invest the proceeds into making our platform more powerful and into acquiring new businesses, combining investor capital allocation with a hands‑on operator approach.

A few examples of your 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, translating 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.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems using first principles, structure your ideas sharply, resist biases, and focus on the details that matter.
• Drive. You’re extremely ambitious, with initiative, effort and tenacity that match your ambition, feeling deeply responsible for your work and holding yourself to a high and rising bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously and without expectations, support the best idea, and are reliable, honest and transparent, ready to get your hands dirty to help your team.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. 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 and place them in positions to thrive, with early exposure to major projects.
• Competitive pay and access to equity. Salary ranges are adapted by location and impact, with equity opportunities for permanent contracts and additional tax incentives for relocation to Italy.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, unlimited learning support, top‑of‑the‑market health insurance, a generous relocation package, parental support, and a yearly retreat.

Commitment & contract

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

Location

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

The selection process

After screening, you will complete a series of tests designed to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems, followed by interviews if successful. We set a high bar and may keep the job open for months or repost several times.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider all applicants 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.

We recommend you spend your first few months working from our Milan office to quickly ramp up and build trust, with generous travel and accommodation support. After that, you may work from Milan, London, or remotely from approved countries, depending on the agreed location 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.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development

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