Job description
Intro
At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays – we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.
Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation – which is reflected in our spending solution. At Pleo, you’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, all while having some fun along the way.
About the role
We’re looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to join our Security Engineering team at Pleo. In this role, you’ll help scale and strengthen our security practices across cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work closely with teams across the platform and engineering organisation to build secure-by-default tools and workflows that empower our developers to ship secure code with ease.
If you’re excited about automation, collaboration, and helping build security into modern infrastructure – this is the opportunity for you!
What you’ll be doing
As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will:
Define and automate guardrails across our CI/CD pipelines to promote secure development at scale
Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security policy enforcement and improve auto-remediation workflows
Identify and address hardening opportunities in our Kubernetes and AWS environments
Collaborate with DevX and SRE teams to embed security into developer tooling and day-to-day workflows
Provide security input and coaching across engineering as part of cross-functional initiatives
What you bring
You’ll thrive in this role if you have:
Comfort with at least one programming language such as Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, or Golang, and a solid foundation in application development
Experience implementing security checks in CI/CD pipelines, ideally automating them from code to production
A working knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS security practices, including hardening, configuration, and troubleshooting
A good grasp of cloud security fundamentals, including how to secure modern architectures (sidecars, microservices, service mesh), and the ability to balance tradeoffs in cost, security, and complexity
Strong collaboration and communication skills – you’re keen to work closely with engineers, not just write policies
A pragmatic approach to security – you understand where to introduce the right level of friction to enable rather than block
A growth mindset – you’re always learning and willing to tackle areas you’re not yet an expert in
Nice to have:
Proficiency in Java or Kotlin and experience securing applications running on the JVM
Familiarity with regulatory requirements like PCI DSS, GDPR, or PSD2, especially around areas like network segmentation and authorisation models
Who you’ll be working with and reporting to
You’ll report to our Head of Security Engineering and work closely with teams in Developer Experience, Site Reliability Engineering, and Platform. Our Security Engineering team is focused on enabling secure-by-default infrastructure through automation, coaching, and tooling – not taking over, but uplifting. You’ll play a key part in that mission.
How you’ll develop in this role
In your first 6 months at Pleo, you’ll:
Contribute to scaling our CI/CD security automation across product teams
Help define security best practices for Kubernetes and cloud architecture
Partner with engineering teams to improve workflows and build golden paths for secure development
We’re committed to supporting your growth, whether you want to deepen your technical expertise, explore a Staff-level path, or move into leadership in the future.
Show me the benefits!
Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
Lunch is on us – with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices, or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly with your salary 🍜
Comprehensive private healthcare – depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis [Remove for Germany]
We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
Wellbeing days – fully paid days off designed to help you slow down and recharge
We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️🩹
Access to LinkedIn Learning – acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
Paid parental leave – we want to make sure that we’re supportive of families and help you feel that you don’t have to compromise your family due to work 👶
Please note for this role we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you’re working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that’s Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ’d out of Copenhagen means we’re inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don’t work in the office with us, we’ll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
- Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn’t able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
- We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
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