What You'll Do:

You’ll join Criteo’s Application & Product Security team as a Dev Lead, securing the products we build and operate. Working closely with Product Engineering, Platform teams, and other Security teams, you’ll define the security strategy for your domain while remaining technically hands-on. This role balances engineering execution, security strategy, and team leadership.
 

• Own and drive the Application & Product Security roadmap, setting direction on key risks, priorities, and technical strategy

• Act as a security subject matter expert, guiding teams on secure design, threat modelling, and vulnerability management

• Lead the identification, prioritisation, and remediation of application security risks across the organisation

• Contribute hands-on to security initiatives, including design reviews, security tooling, and incident response

• Define and evolve security KPIs to measure and continuously improve the security posture of your domain

• Partner with Product and Platform teams to embed security into the development lifecycle (shift-left approach)

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, providing both technical leadership and people management

• Collaborate across Security domains to drive company-wide product security awareness programs and culture

Who You Are:

• You bring experience in Security Engineering, or have strongly contributed to security topics in previous roles

• You have a background in Product Engineering or SRE / platform environments and understand modern SDLC practices

• You have experience leading projects, initiatives, or teams, with a track record of driving impact in complex organisations

• You are comfortable acting as a technical authority on security topics, advising teams on risks and trade-offs

• You can prioritise and manage security risks effectively across distributed systems and multiple stakeholders

• You enjoy combining hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities

• You influence without authority, building trust and alignment across teams

• You demonstrate strong ownership and a high level of integrity when handling sensitive topics

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!​

Who We Are:

We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.

We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.

What We Offer: