Lead Incident Response Engineer, Group Security
Brief info about Vinted
Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third. The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
- Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.
- Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.
- Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.
Information about the position
As a Security Engineer focusing on technical security engineering challenges, you will be part of the Group Security function, which supports the whole organisation. As a Cyber Defense team, we adopt or develop technological solutions to protect the security of Vinted members and employees and to secure the organisation against external and internal threats. To achieve this, we provide consultations, incident response, threat intelligence, security awareness and security-enhancing technologies and services to the organisation.
In this position, you’ll:
- Lead and participate in the lifecycle of security incident response, from detection and analysis to containment, eradication, and recovery.
- Develop and implement detection engineering strategies, creating and fine-tuning alerts to identify malicious activity across environment.
- Design, build, and maintain security automation and tooling that automate incident response workflows, enrich alerts, and integrate the security stack.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a coordinated and effective response to security events.
- Track, research, and experiment with the latest tactics, techniques and procedures for attacking and defending on-prem and cloud environments.
- Mentor and guide other engineers on the team, sharing your expertise and helping to level up collective capabilities.
- Create, track and iterate on metrics that showcase actionable insights to leadership across Vinted.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 working days of holiday
- Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- Private health insurance
- Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
- Frequent team-building events
- A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
- The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
- A dog-friendly office
- In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
- In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast
Working at Vinted
Individual Learning Budget
We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.
Hybrid Work
We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.
The salary range for this position is €4,975 - € 8,842 gross per month.
About you:
- Hands-on experience in engineering roles, with a strong focus on infrastructure security.
- Proficient in software development (e.g., Python, Go) and have experience building security-focused tools.
- Practical experience building and scaling security programs, including SOCs, IR teams, and on-call rotations.
- Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly triage and investigate security incidents
- Can communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and work well in cross-functional teams.
- Excellent at communicating in spoken and written English.
