Security Lead - Team Plateform

Taktile Technologies Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Berlin Office

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Set the technical security architecture roadmap for the Platform Team, including threat modeling, control frameworks, and key initiatives such as data classification, secrets management, IAM hardening, and supply chain security.
• Own and drive down residual risk by maintaining a prioritized risk list, sequencing mitigation work, and reporting progress to leadership on a monthly basis.
• Lead and manage a team of security engineers, GRC engineers, and IT staff through 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development, with heavy technical leadership responsibilities.
• Serve as the primary security partner for Engineering and Product teams on new initiatives, including AI tooling and enterprise-grade features, ensuring security is embedded from design through deployment.
• Co-own audit readiness with GRC for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and customer-specific security reviews, ensuring compliance and trust across enterprise clients.
• Remain hands-on by shipping automation tools, hardening cloud infrastructure and application code, and proactively identifying and mitigating security threats before they escalate.
• Establish and promote paved-road patterns and secure-by-default standards that enable the broader organization to move quickly while maintaining high security bar.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security controls are automated and scalable.
• Apply deep expertise in AWS, IAM, Kubernetes, secrets management, vulnerability management, and threat modeling to secure a high-velocity SaaS platform.
• Influence engineering and product teams without direct authority, driving alignment on security priorities through technical credibility and clear communication.
• Maintain strong individual contributor experience by actively contributing to code, infrastructure, and security tooling, ensuring leadership remains grounded in technical reality.
• Contribute to the evolution of security culture by mentoring engineers, advocating for secure practices, and embedding security into product development workflows.
• Participate in incident response and remediation efforts, ensuring rapid containment and learning from security events to prevent recurrence.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into actionable technical controls that align with business objectives and engineering velocity.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in product, application, or cloud security at a SaaS company
• Experience preparing for SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits
• Managed or tech-led a team of 2–4 engineers (formally or as tech lead with people responsibilities)
• Strong technical proficiency in AWS, IAM, Kubernetes, secrets management, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and DevSecOps in CI/CD
• Exposure to backend/SRE practices using Python, Bash, and Terraform
• Proven track record of measurably reducing org-wide security risk, not just running programs
• Ability to influence engineering and product teams without direct authority
• Deep individual contributor experience setting security direction for a meaningful organization

🏖️ Benefits

• Top-of-market equity and cash compensation package
• Self-development budget for conferences, books, or classes
• Equipment of your choice, including meaningful home office setup
• Opportunity to work with a globally diverse team and learn from experienced mentors and leading tech investors

Skills & Technologies

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

REST

Senior

Onsite

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About Taktile Technologies Inc.

Taktile Technologies Inc. provides a no-code decision engine that lets fintechs and banks build, test, and deploy credit and risk policies in real time. The cloud platform ingests alternative data, runs machine-learning models, and enables rapid A/B experiments without engineering resources. Customers use it to automate onboarding, underwriting, fraud detection, and pricing workflows while maintaining explainability and compliance. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York with offices in Berlin, Taktile serves digital lenders, neobanks, and payment providers across Europe and the United States.

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