Overview In this role you will own platform security across cloud environments, driving detection, alerting, and incident readiness. You'll lead cross-functional security initiatives and help shape a scalable security posture for Preply's global platform. You will evolve monitoring from a basic SIEM to a trusted, actionable detection and response capability and work hands-on with current tooling.

This position offers impact across SRE, Data, and Engineering teams in a fast-paced, growth-oriented company.

Compensaciones / Incentivos relocation package health insurance

Learning & Development budget lesson allowance time off for self-development equity/financial package

Responsabilidades

Own platform security across AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP with emphasis on detection and incident readiness

Lead end-to-end security initiatives from problem definition to rollout

Define how platform security is designed, implemented, and operated at Preply

Mature detection and response capabilities and make them actionable

Work with tools like Datadog, Okta, and various SaaS platforms

Drive cross-functional security initiatives with SRE, Data, Engineering, and GRC

Strengthen cloud security with guardrails, secure patterns, and automation

Improve access control to internal infrastructure and auditability

Improve Kubernetes security across clusters and workloads





Establish repeatable triage workflows and on-call escalation

Create runbooks and playbooks for consistent alert handling

Partner with Data teams to improve monitoring for suspicious activity

Improve secrets management in CI/CD and runtime

Build security automation to make the secure path easy for engineers

Requisitos principales Strong experience securing cloud and platform environments (AWS, Kubernetes; experience with GCP a plus)

Experience delivering technical security initiatives end-to-end in production

Strong understanding of SDLC and CI/CD with IaC

Experience with identity and access security; Okta event monitoring preferred

Experience building or maturing security operations; turning SIEM inputs into actionable outcomes

Experience improving logging coverage and building actionable detections (Datadog SIEM a plus)

Strong collaboration skills across SRE, Data, Engineering, and GRC

Business-minded with cost-benefit decision making

Excellent communication; English C1+

Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Nice to have: Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD security, Cloudflare WAF/bot protections, scripting for automation

Incident response experience in cloud-native environments (AWS/Kubernetes)

Collaborative

Strong communicaton skills

Influence across teams

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

📌 Senior II Security Engineer - Platform (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona