Security Engineer
Augustus, formerly Ivy, is a global payments and programmable-money platform that moves funds between fiat and stablecoins, supports payouts and open-banking payments, and is organizing a U.S. clearing bank for the AI era.
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About Augustus
Ivy provides programmable banking infrastructure purpose-built around stablecoins for the digital economy. Businesses can accept instant bank payments, hold and convert fiat and stablecoin balances, and send payouts globally through one unified API. The platform connects local payment rails with stablecoin networks.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own security engineering across applications, infrastructure, and incident response. You will partner with product and platform teams during design, build and ship security automation, harden cloud and CI/CD paths, create detection and response workflows, and drive remediation through to closure. You will establish security controls, reviews, logging, identity hardening, secret-management standards, and control-evidence reporting.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience in security engineering, product security, cloud security, or detection and response engineering in production environments
- Expertise securing cloud-based systems, including IAM, networking, logging, key management, and workload isolation
- Experience securing CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building a security automation or detection capability used in production
- Experience in fintech, payments, banking, or another regulated environment with audit and control-evidence requirements
- Experience with SIEM/SOAR and cloud security platforms
- Ability to work in the Berlin office three days per week
- Ability to relocate to Berlin if not currently located there
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end security engineering across applications, infrastructure, and incident response
- Partner with product and platform teams during design
- Build and ship security automation in production
- Lead incident response and drive remediation to closure
- Enforce a secure software development lifecycle for critical services
- Build an AI-native product-security review pipeline
- Harden cloud workloads, CI/CD paths, workload identities, and secret management
- Build detection and response workflows
- Implement runtime audit logging and dependency monitoring
- Report monthly control evidence to Security and Compliance
Benefits
- Equity
- Relocation support
- Visa support
- MacBook and AirPods
- Lunch benefit
- Gym benefit
- Office in the city center
- Four on-sites and off-sites per year
- Annual development budget
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for the US team
- 401(k) retirement plan for the US team
