Head of Security (f/m/d)

1KOMMA5°

Deine Position

• Leading Team Trust: direction, hiring, growth, health and mentoring.
• Cloud and IoT Security: protect our cloud, our applications, and the connected hardware in our customers' homes.
• Risk and Compliance: own cybersecurity frameworks and the regulations that applies to energy companies.
• Identity and Access Management: internal permissions and secure development that scale with the engineering org.
• Security as a Product: capabilities developers use by default.
• Translating Risk: make security risk concrete for non-technical decision makers, up to C-level.

• Google Cloud Platform, Vercel
• Auth0
• Wiz
• GitHub Advanced Security
• Terraform / Terramate
• Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Incident.io
• Cursor, MCP, and agentic engineering workflows
• TypeScript, Python and GoLang

Dein Profil

• Several years of experience in security engineering or security leadership, including leading or mentoring engineers.
• A technical background in cloud security, preferably Google Cloud Platform, with enough depth to reason about infrastructure, CI/CD, identity, and application security.
• Startup agility: you have built a security framework from scratch, or close to it, with limited initial resources and a clear view of what matters first.
• Regulatory knowledge: you are familiar with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSF and ISO 27001, and ideally with critical infrastructure rules like NIS2 and KRITIS.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to make security risk concrete for engineers, product managers, and senior business stakeholders.
• A pragmatic, outcome-oriented way of working.
• Excellent English communication skills; German is a plus.

• Hands-on coding experience.
• Experience with security in an AI-assisted engineering setup, including agentic workflows and their guardrails.
• Experience running or coordinating security incident response.
• Experience with security and IT controls in a company preparing for a public listing.
• Experience in a scale-up environment with roughly 100 to 1000 employees.
• Interest in climate tech and renewable energy.

Benefits

• You are part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team of people who have proven to make things happen
• With your work, you accelerate the "energy transition" and hence have a direct impact on our climate
• Work with and learn from other super-smart colleagues
• You will enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers
• Flat hierarchies and short decision paths, so your work reaches production quickly
• You work remotely (Germany-wide) with a genuinely flexible remote policy, and our offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich are there whenever you want them
• Create a healthy balance alongside your work and enjoy all the benefits of the EGYM Wellpass
• Benefits and discounts are yours with Futurebens
• Whether city bike or e-bike - be flexible with our job bike leasing and do something good for the environment at the same time