Security Engineer, Enterprise Security
Germany; Hybrid•GermanyEuropePerpignanPyrénées-OrientalesFranceEurope•March 12, 2025
Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model, which combines the flexibility of working from home with the benefits of gathering in person. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few times every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow.
Grammarly team members who will be collaborating in Berlin must be based in Germany, Ukraine, Poland, or Portugal.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, over 30 million people and 50,000 teams around the world rely on our AI-powered communication assistance technology. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment.
User Trust is at the heart of everything that we do. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Security Engineer, Enterprise Security to join the Grammarly Security team. This person will be responsible for protecting Grammarly's infrastructure, including the corporate environment within which our employees work and the cloud infrastructure within which all our product offerings and services run. The Security Engineer will build preventive solutions that raise the security bar for our infrastructure, innovate in monitoring and detections, and lead incident investigations.
Grammarly’s security engineers have the freedom to develop practical solutions that, in turn, influence our security culture. The engineering landscape at Grammarly is complex, as we create innovative product offerings, expand to new platforms, and scale underlying cloud systems—all while strengthening and expanding our global team. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.
Your impact
As Security Engineer, Enterprise Security, you will:
- Identify and mitigate security issues, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities related to Grammarly’s cloud infrastructure.
- Build and extend scanning and monitoring to ensure we quickly detect misconfigurations and anomalous behavior in our cloud infrastructure.
- Research and deploy corporate security solutions to create a secure environment for our employees to be productive in their daily tasks, including endpoints, email, browsing, file sharing, network security, and any 3P software and SaaS integrations.
- Augment our infrastructure with audit trails and build detections to ensure that we can effectively and decisively identify and investigate known and emerging threats.
- Participate in security incident response, lead incidents, and perform post-incident reviews with engineering teams.
- Develop, evangelize, and monitor the adoption of best cloud security practices
- Represent Grammarly’s security engineering within and outside of the company.
We’re looking for someone who
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
- Is a security practitioner with a proven record of security-focused technical contributions in cloud infrastructure security, corporate security, detections, and incident response.
- Can build strong relationships with peers across the company to evangelize a strong security culture.
- Nurtures the talent in the team and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team.
- Identifies impactful and practical solutions for security, from low-hanging fruit to long-term investments.
Support for you, professionally and personally
- Professional growth: We hire people we trust and give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
- A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
- Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, and more.
We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Grammarly is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.
For more details about the personal data Grammarly collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Grammarly Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here.
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Please note that Grammarly’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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