About the Role
The Security & Compliance Engineer owns the security, compliance, and integration of our tool ecosystem, including CRM, community/LMS, data, and collaboration platforms. This is a hands-on technical role focused on hardening, connecting, and automating existing platforms through scripting, API work, and system/security architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure configurations, access controls, SSO, secrets management, and data protection controls across the tool stack.
- Ensure compliance with data protection requirements (e.g., GDPR), manage audit readiness, and lead vendor/security reviews for new tools.
- Oversee the secure and compliant use of AI tools, ensuring alignment with the EU AI Act and internal data protection standards.
- Classify and document AI workflows and advise teams on safe AI usage.
- Build and maintain API-based integrations and automations between operational platforms using scripting and automation tools.
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting across systems.
- Lead investigation and resolution of security and technical incidents.
- Identify and automate manual, recurring workflows.
- Collaborate with marketing, business development, and leadership to translate operational needs into secure technical solutions.
- Maintain up-to-date architecture, security, and compliance documentation.
Requirements
- Comfortable writing code/scripts (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Experience working with REST APIs.
- Ability to reason about system architecture applied to integration and security.
- Strong grounding in security fundamentals: access management, authentication, secrets and vulnerability management, and data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR).
- Practical experience working with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini).
- Solid understanding of the EU AI Act and AI governance principles.
- Hands-on experience with HubSpot (CRM and automation), Notion, and LMS/Community platforms (e.g., Hivebrite, Circle), or ability to quickly learn new SaaS platforms.
- Experience with automation and workflow tooling (e.g., Zapier, Make, native integrations).
- Experience with data analysis.
- Proactive and pragmatic approach, comfortable owning technical decisions with minimal supervision.
- Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- German language skills are a plus.
Skills
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- REST APIs
- System Architecture
- Security Fundamentals
- Access Management
- Authentication
- Secrets Management
- Vulnerability Management
- Data Protection Regulations
- GDPR
- AI Tools (Claude, Gemini)
- EU AI Act
- AI Governance
- HubSpot
- Notion
- LMS/Community Platforms (Hivebrite, Circle)
- Automation
- Workflow Tooling (Zapier, Make)
- Data Analysis
Location
- Remote (up to 50% of working time)
- Remote (outside of Germany for up to six weeks annually)
Work Type
- Mobile work (up to 50%)
- Remote work (up to six weeks annually outside of Germany)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- 30 days of paid leave annually
- Company pension scheme
- Possibility for mobile work (up to 50% of the working time)
- Possibility for remote work, also outside of Germany, for up to six weeks in total annually
- Regular team offsites, team events and parties
- Employee Benefits like Urban Sports Club or shopping vouchers
- Professional development opportunities
About the Company
- The DO School Fellowships gGmbH is a non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany.
- Our core mission is to offer training and fellowship programs to empower young people globally to launch projects addressing global and local challenges around environment and society.
- We are training the next generation of impact entrepreneurs in innovative educational and fellowship programs.
- We are a purposeful organization with a global reach working to make an impact, where purpose, passion, and your ideas matter.
- You will work with an entrepreneurial, creative, and international team as well as a global community of purposeful DOers from over 100 countries.
Equal Opportunity
- The DO School Fellowships is an inclusive organization and explicitly welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds, whether that’s ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability or alternative professional paths.
