Security Engineer

The role

We are looking for a Principal Security Engineer to serve as one of HelloFresh's most senior technical authorities in Security — shaping how we protect the company today while defining the security foundations we will need for the future.

This is not a Principal role defined by ownership of a single security domain. Your domain is HelloFresh.

You will operate at the intersection of technology strategy, security architecture, engineering and business risk, influencing some of the most consequential technical decisions we make. You will partner with senior Engineering, Product, Data, IT and business leadership to ensure security is not something applied after strategic decisions are made, but a fundamental input into those decisions. 

You think in systems, not Initiatives — and in years, not quarters.

Where others see an IAM issue, application vulnerability, endpoint incident or AI risk, you look for the architectural condition connecting them. You ask not only “How do we fix this?” but “Why can this class of failure exist at HelloFresh, and what should we change so that it becomes difficult by design?”

Your job is not merely to secure the systems HelloFresh has today. It is to influence what HelloFresh builds next, define the security architecture that makes it possible, and raise the technical capability of the organisation so that secure-by-default becomes a property of the company itself.

You will bring exceptional breadth across Cloud Security, Application & Product Security, Vulnerability Management, Offensive Security, Detection & Response, Enterprise IT Security, IAM & Zero Trust, Endpoint/MDM, Governance & Risk, Third-Party & Supply-Chain Security, and GenAI Security — with the depth and judgment to challenge our strongest specialists and go hands-on when the hardest problems demand it.

What you'll do

• Demonstrate strong bias for action, moving quickly from ambiguity and constraints to clear decisions, ownership, and measurable outcomes. Balance speed with sound judgment, ensuring critical security risks are addressed decisively without creating unnecessary process or delay**.**
• Make Security AI-native. Identify operational work across Security that should no longer require repetitive human execution. Drive agents, automation, internal security products and self-service capabilities that encode security expertise and make it available at company scale — with appropriate permissions, human oversight, evaluation and auditability.