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Security Product and Application Engineer

    • Paris, France
  • Engineering
  • Permanent - Full Time

Security Product and Application Engineer

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Job ID: r20699

What You'll Do:

You'll join Criteo's Application & Product Security team, helping secure the products we build and operate. Working closely with Product Engineering, Platform teams, and other Security teams, you'll contribute to the security strategy of your domain while remaining hands-on. This role combines technical expertise, engineering execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Partner with Product and Platform teams to design and build secure systems and services

  • Act as a trusted security advisor, guiding teams on secure design, threat modelling, and vulnerability management

  • Identify, assess, prioritise, and help remediate application security risks across the organisation

  • Contribute hands-on to security initiatives, including architecture reviews, security tooling, automation, and incident response activities

  • Help define and evolve security standards, best practices, and KPIs to continuously improve the security posture of your domain

  • Drive the adoption of security-by-design and shift-left security practices throughout the software development lifecycle

  • Lead complex technical projects and security initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders across multiple teams

  • Support security awareness efforts by sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and promoting secure engineering practices across the organisation

  • Collaborate with Security, Product, and Platform teams to improve security processes, tooling, and operational excellence

Who You Are:

  • You bring experience in Security Engineering, or have significantly contributed to application or product security initiatives in previous roles

  • You have a background in Product Engineering or SRE / Platform Engineering and a strong understanding of modern software development practices

  • You have experience leading complex technical projects and driving cross-functional initiatives in large-scale environments

  • You are comfortable acting as a subject matter expert on security topics and advising teams on risks, trade-offs, and best practices

  • You have experience securing distributed systems, cloud-native environments, and modern application architectures

  • You enjoy combining hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and technical leadership

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

  • You demonstrate strong ownership, accountability, and sound judgement when handling sensitive security topics

  • You are passionate about improving security through scalable solutions, automation, and collaboration

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:

🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.

Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.

Perks & Benefits for all Criteos.

Happy people make healthy teams, so we value employee well-being above all else. Discover the perks & benefits we offer all our Criteos!!

Ways of Working

Trust and flexibility are at our core, so is the power of being together. Our hybrid model blends empowerment with shared in-person experiences, making space for both. We believe this is the most valuable way to foster collaboration in a way that helps us grow, together.

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Learning & Career Development

As your skills multiply, opportunities do too. So, we care to help you nurture your potential, identify new goals, and define what you want out of your career. Discover how we have diversified our learning resources and training catalog for you to shape greater opportunities. You care for your career growth, and we do too.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

We care to build an open future for our community and beyond. Discover how our people fuel our Corporate Social Responsibility from the bottom up, embracing but also embodying and promoting values of diversity, equity, and inclusion through everything they do. Together, we strive to build a future that truly includes everyone.

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Great people shape greater opportunities.

At Criteo, we believe great people and reliable products are essential to build an open future for all.
Everything you need to know about our culture, vision, values, and how we live them with people, both in and out of Criteo, is in our Culture Book. Discover who we are, what we do, and how we act as a company and as Criteos!
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Meet our Criteos in France!

Criteo came to spring off of a few great minds, back in 2005. From the start-up incubator to the global company we are now, Criteo has grown, standing now for 37 offices and further coworking spaces across the globe. In France, we welcome around 1,000 Criteos in our two spacious and collaborative hubs of Paris and Grenoble.

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