RMG Recruitment Agency

Security Engineer – AppSec, GRC, AI Security

RMG Recruitment Agency
Posted 10/21/2026full-timeRemote • CyprusJuniorMid-LevelWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in security engineering with a focus on application security, vulnerability remediation, and security audits. Proficient in managing security operations, risk assessment, and collaborating with engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Security Engineering ExperienceApplication SecurityVulnerability RemediationSecurity AuditsPython Scripting

Tech Stack

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Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Take end-to-end ownership of security operations as the company's sole dedicated Security Engineer
  • Review code, identify and remediate vulnerabilities, work with developers in Git/GitHub, and coordinate external penetration tests and audits
  • Build and maintain the security risk register, assess exposure across systems, support audit follow-up, and prioritise fixes by risk and business impact
  • Monitor alerts and threats, run security awareness programmes and phishing simulations, and provide occasional evening and weekend cover
  • Manage secure onboarding and offboarding, device security through MDM, access permissions, and internal controls
  • Track generative AI security risks including prompt injection, jailbreaks, filter bypasses, and vulnerabilities in third-party AI providers
  • Collaborate directly with engineering leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 2–3+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional scale-up experience
  • Strong application security experience, including code reviews and vulnerability 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 experience within an AI company or a scale-up with 50+ employees
  • Sound understanding of security governance, risk assessment and prioritisation
  • Ability to independently identify, investigate and resolve security issues, and to take end-to-end ownership in a fast-paced environment
  • 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

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Fully remote working from Europe
  • Opportunity to own security for a fast-growing AI platform with over 50 million users
  • Direct collaboration with engineering leadership
  • Hands-on, non-advisory role with real responsibility for security outcomes

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Hard Skills
Code ReviewVulnerability RemediationSecurity AuditsPenetration TestingRisk AssessmentSecurity GovernanceSecurity MonitoringDevice Security ManagementAccess Permissions ManagementAutomation Skills
Soft Skills
Excellent Communication SkillsProblem-SolvingOwnershipCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
GitGitHubMDMGenerative AI Security ToolsPhishing Simulation Tools
Industry Keywords
AI Company ExperienceScale-Up ExperienceSecurity Risk RegisterSecurity Awareness ProgramsCET Working Hours