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About the Role
As a Security Engineer at KAYAK, you will help drive our vulnerability management program and contribute across multiple security domains in a collaborative, globally distributed environment. You will protect the people, systems, and data that power travel for millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Support and continuously improve the vulnerability management program, defining processes for identifying, prioritizing, tracking, and driving remediation of security findings across infrastructure and applications.
- Work closely with engineering, operations, and IT teams to ensure findings are understood, assigned, and resolved in a timely manner.
- Report on program health and trends to security leadership.
- Participate in incident response activities, including triage, investigation, containment, and post-incident documentation.
- Support application security initiatives, including automated code scanning, dependency analysis, and working with engineering teams to address security findings early in the development process.
- Help configure, monitor, and improve security tooling across areas such as endpoint protection, email security, identity and access management, and cloud security posture.
- Contribute to security automation and orchestration workflows that reduce manual effort and improve response times.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and compliance teams to embed security thinking into development workflows and infrastructure changes.
- Document processes, runbooks, and findings to support team knowledge sharing and continuity.
- Participate in access reviews and support identity and access management processes in line with established policies.
- Stay current with the evolving threat landscape and contribute ideas for improving the team's detection and response capabilities.
Requirements
- A solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, including networking, operating systems (Linux, macOS, or Windows), and cloud environments.
- Hands-on experience in at least one security domain, such as vulnerability management, incident response, application security, endpoint security, or identity and access management.
- Experience working with security tooling (e.g., vulnerability scanners, endpoint detection and response platforms, SIEM systems, or similar).
- Familiarity with AI tools and how they can be applied in a security context.
- The ability to communicate clearly in writing and in conversation.
- A collaborative approach to problem-solving.
- Comfort working with some degree of autonomy on assigned tasks and projects, while knowing when to ask for input.
Skills
- Cybersecurity fundamentals
- Networking
- Operating systems (Linux, macOS, or Windows)
- Cloud environments
- Vulnerability management
- Incident response
- Application security
- Endpoint security
- Identity and access management
- Security tooling
- AI tools
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Autonomy
Location
- Berlin, Germany
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Professional experience
Education Level
- Formal education
- Self-study
- Bootcamps
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
- Company-wide week off a year
- No meeting Fridays
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- 6 weeks paid vacation
- Free lunch 2 days per week
- Pension plan contributions
- Public transportation subsidies
- Bike leasing program
- Monthly social events
- Thursday happy hours
- Sports teams
About the Company
- KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a leading travel search engine.
- With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package.
- We're also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.
- As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others.
- From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark.
- Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Equal Opportunity
- At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.
- Need any adjustments for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads-up. We’ve got you.