Security Engineer

At Epignosis our mission is simple yet bold: To make learning technologies accessible to every business, regardless of geography, sector, or company size. And we’ve been doing just that for more than a decade, empowering millions of people to grow, learn, and thrive through technology that’s both powerful and affordable.

We're rapidly becoming one of Greece's largest SaaS companies, serving 12,000+ companies and 22+ million learners worldwide with solutions like TalentLMS (an award-winning cloud LMS built for simplicity), eFront (an enterprise LMS), TalentCards (a mobile app for deskless training), and TalentHR (a lightweight HRIS for people operations).

• Perform application security reviews across product designs, architecture, and production code, and conduct threat-modelling exercises for new and existing functionality.
• Partner with engineering teams to investigate security vulnerabilities, assess their impact and support effective remediation.
• Identify and prioritise security risks, providing developers with clear, practical, and actionable remediation guidance.
• Improve and automate security controls within CI/CD pipelines and software development workflows, helping identify security issues earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Assess the security of APIs, third-party integrations, AWS environments, and architectural changes.
• Develop practical security tooling, automation, guidelines, and engineering standards that enable development teams to build secure software.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to continuously improve secure development practices and strengthen security across our products and infrastructure.

• Professional experience in application security, product security, software engineering, or another relevant technical role.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to understand, navigate, and review production code.
• Strong knowledge of application security principles, common vulnerability classes, and secure software development practices.
• Practical experience with threat modelling, security testing, CI/CD environments, APIs, and cloud-based applications.
• Ability to assess and prioritise security risks based on their real-world impact and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a pragmatic approach to balancing security and engineering requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers and other technical stakeholders.
• Fluency in English.

Nice-to-have:

• Building security tooling, automation, or developer-focused security controls.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS environments, particularly around compute infrastructure, network and application protection, security monitoring, and threat detection.
• Identity and access management (IAM).
• Incident response and security investigations.
• Penetration testing or security research.

• Competitive salary and bonuses. Strong base pay plus performance rewards at personal, team, and company levels.
• Stock options for everyone. Build software that empowers millions of learners worldwide, and own a piece of what you're creating. All team members can become shareholders, and these options have already changed lives.
• Your health is covered in more ways than one. Private health coverage for every team member, access to a nutritionist, and our in-house blood bank — all part of our health and wellness support.
• Comprehensive family support. We’re proud of our progressive family policy, one of the most generous in Greece.
• Daily meals and food allowance. Breakfast and catered lunch at our offices, plus a monthly meal allowance you control.
• Commute covered. OASA transport card or parking space near the office, whichever works for your commute.
• Hybrid work. Work from home and from our modern office in the heart of Athens.
• Learning budget for your growth. Coaching sessions, conferences, university degrees, creative pursuits — we fund it. Continuous learning is our mission and that includes you.
• Part of the Starttech Ventures ecosystem. Access to learning and collaboration across a portfolio of SaaS companies, with resources that support long-term growth.