Associate Security Engineer

About the role

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We're also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Security at KAYAK is a team effort — we protect the people, systems, and data that power travel for millions of users worldwide, and we do it by working closely with engineering, operations, and product teams. As an Associate Security Engineer, you will help to drive our vulnerability management program while contributing across multiple security domains in a collaborative, globally distributed environment. You can find more information about our security program at https://www.kayak.com/security.

This role is required to work from our Berlin, Germany office 3 days per week.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Support and continuously improve the vulnerability management program — defining processes for identifying, prioritizing, tracking, and driving remediation of security findings across infrastructure and applications. This includes working closely with engineering, operations, and IT teams to ensure findings are understood, assigned, and resolved in a timely manner, and reporting on program health and trends to security leadership.

- Participate in incident response activities, including triage, investigation, containment, and post-incident documentation.

- Support application security initiatives, including automated code scanning, dependency analysis, and working with engineering teams to address security findings early in the development process.

- Help configure, monitor, and improve security tooling across areas such as endpoint protection, email security, identity and access management, and cloud security posture.

- Contribute to security automation and orchestration workflows that reduce manual effort and improve response times.

- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and compliance teams to embed security thinking into development workflows and infrastructure changes.

- Document processes, runbooks, and findings to support team knowledge sharing and continuity.

- Participate in access reviews and support identity and access management processes in line with established policies.

- Stay current with the evolving threat landscape and contribute ideas for improving the team's detection and response capabilities.

PLEASE APPLY IF YOU HAVE:

- A solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals — including networking, operating systems (Linux, macOS, or Windows), and cloud environments — gained through any combination of formal education, self-study, bootcamps, or professional experience.