n8n - Head of Application Security
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Requirements
• Must-haves • Must-haves • 🛡️ Security leadership experience: You have significant experience leading security in a SaaS, cloud, or product-led technology environment, with ownership beyond isolated technical tasks. • 🧰 Hands-on product and platform security depth: You have strong practical experience in application security, cloud or platform security, vulnerability management, and secure engineering practices. • 🧰 Hands-on product and platform security depth: • ⚖️ Pragmatic risk judgment: You know how to define priorities, make trade-offs, and focus teams on the security work that matters most. • ⚖️ Pragmatic risk judgment: • 🤝 Cross-functional influence: You’re able to work credibly with engineers, engineering leadership, and non-technical stakeholders to drive action on security topics. • 🤝 Cross-functional influence: • 🚀 Builder mindset: You’ve operated in ambiguity before and know how to create structure, standards, and momentum where little existed previously. • 🚀 Builder mindset: • 📣 Clear communication: You can explain security risks, decisions, and expectations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including customers when needed. • 📣 Clear communication: • 🧑💻 Security enablement approach: You see security as an enabler of product velocity and know how to build guardrails, tooling, and workflows that teams will actually adopt. • 🧑💻 Security enablement approach: • 🔥 Incident and vulnerability ownership: You have experience leading or coordinating vulnerability disclosure, remediation, and incident response processes in practice. • 🔥 Incident and vulnerability ownership: • 🧱 Resilience under pressure: You stay calm, credible, and effective when dealing with external pressure, urgent incidents, customer escalations, or high-stakes security discussions. • 🧱 Resilience under pressure: • 🌍 Executive maturity and judgment: You’re comfortable representing security externally and internally, and you know how to balance urgency, transparency, and sound decision-making in sensitive situations. • 🌍 Executive maturity and judgment: • Nice-to-haves • Nice-to-haves • ☁️ Enterprise SaaS experience: You’ve helped mature security in a company selling into larger enterprise customers with increasing security review expectations. • 🤖 AI and abuse-risk exposure: You have experience thinking through security implications of AI-enabled products, agentic systems, or platform misuse and abuse cases. • 🤖 AI and abuse-risk exposure: • 🧪 DevSecOps and automation expertise: You’ve built or improved security automation across CI/CD, developer workflows, or internal security platforms. • 🧪 DevSecOps and automation expertise: • 🌍 Open-source or developer-tooling background: You understand the security challenges and trade-offs that come with technical products, communities, or open-source-adjacent environments. • 🌍 Open-source or developer-tooling background: • 👥 Team scaling experience: You’ve hired or grown security teams and can assess what capabilities and team shape are needed over time. • 📋 Customer trust and compliance support: You’ve partnered on security questionnaires, audits, or enterprise-facing trust work without treating compliance as the end goal. • 📋 Customer trust and compliance support:
Responsibilities
• Select all that apply • Internal security documentation for engineering teams • A public security advisory or disclosure notice • Internal security policies or governance documents • Researcher communications or bug bounty program updates • Threat modeling or architecture-level security reviews • Coordinating third-party penetration tests • Creating or maintaining a Secure SDLC process • Running red team, purple team, or tabletop exercises • Mostly supported security tooling and infrastructure • Acted as a security point of contact but not embedded • Embedded directly in a team and regularly involved in reviews • Limited direct interaction with engineering teams • Tell us about a time you led or significantly contributed to a security initiative (e.g., vulnerability management, disclosure process, incident response. What was the challenge, what did you do, and what impact did it have? • I prefer not to answer • Another Gender Identity • Heterosexual / straight • Asian or Asian American • Black or African American • Hispanic or Latine • Indigenous or Native American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • Do you agree to allow n8n to contact you about job opportunities for up to 2 years? • Recruiting Privacy Policy • n8n may use Artificial Intelligence with this application. Learn more.
Benefits
• At n8n, you’ll step into a role with real visibility, ownership, and impact. You’ll help define how security should work in a fast-growing automation platform at a moment when product complexity, enterprise expectations, and AI-driven use cases are all increasing at once. You’ll join a remote-first team that values autonomy, speed, and pragmatism, and you’ll have the opportunity to shape both our security foundations and the team around them. • Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on? • Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay. • Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity. • Ownership • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: • Work/life balance • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Europe: • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Health & wellness 🩺 – • Health & wellness • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* • Europe: • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage. • Future planning 💰 – • Future planning • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* • Europe: • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match. • Financial security 🛡️ – • Financial security • Europe: • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. • Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. • Career growth • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! • A passionate team • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. • Remote-first • Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. • Giving back • AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. • AI enablement 🤖 – • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. • Transparency • An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94! • An ambitious but kind culture • Country-specific details are provided in your contract.
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