EQT is looking for an Application Security Engineer to join our Cyber Security Engineering team, owning the security posture of our hosted applications and container platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will build automated guardrails and real-time visibility — making the secure path the easy path across a modern, globally distributed technology landscape. Over time, this role will grow to include ownership of our AI and agentic platform security as that discipline matures at EQT.
The Cyber Security Engineering team defines and validates security standards across EQT's technology landscape. Operating as a trusted security function, the team works closely with platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, identity, and technology assurance teams to strengthen controls while enabling innovation.
This role sits within a small, high-trust team where collaboration, curiosity, and technical depth are core to how we work. The team supports both traditional application environments and EQT's emerging AI and agentic platforms, helping the organization navigate a rapidly evolving threat landscape with practical, engineering-led security standards. You will report to the Head of Digital Employee Experience and partner closely with the CISO function.
This role is built around strong application and container security fundamentals, with the mandate to build automated guardrails and observability at scale — not to review individual applications by hand. As you grow into the role, you'll partner with the CISO function and wider security team to extend that same automation-first approach into AI and agentic security, a space EQT is actively investing in.
You are a technically grounded security engineer who cares deeply about developer experience and approaches security friction as a design problem to solve, not a trade-off to accept. You work with clarity and ownership, communicate technical findings to senior stakeholders with confidence, and are genuinely curious about how AI and agentic systems will reshape security engineering — even if that's not where your experience lives today.
Application security is the foundation this role is built on — that's where the depth needs to be from day one. AI security at EQT is still an emerging discipline, and rather than requiring that expertise up front, we're looking for someone who can bring rockstar AppSec engineering now and grow into AI security scope alongside the team over time, as EQT's AI platforms and the wider practice mature. That's a deliberate growth path we're offering, not a gap we're asking you to fill immediately: you'll build it together with the CISO function and the rest of the security team.
The role is also shaped by a bet on AI-augmented engineering. An engineer with good tooling, a real token budget, and the discipline to automate before they assess can cover ground that would have required a larger team not long ago. We've designed the headcount around that — not to cut corners, but because the best security engineering now looks like one person building excellent guardrails with AI, not several people reviewing things by hand.
At EQT, you will work in an environment that combines high impact with high trust, contributing to security challenges that matter at a global scale. You will help shape practices in areas that are rapidly evolving across the industry — application security, software supply chain security, and modern cloud-native platforms — with a clear path to grow into AI security as that practice takes shape, and direct influence on governance decisions and engineering standards along the way.
We offer meaningful and complex work with global reach, close collaboration with experienced colleagues across security, engineering, and technology, and genuine exposure to emerging AI technologies and cloud-native platforms. EQT has a culture that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, with real opportunities for professional development in a fast-moving environment.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary, determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Eligible employees may also receive discretionary incentive compensation, awarded in recognition of individual performance and company results. EQT provides a comprehensive benefits offering designed to support employee wellbeing, development, and work-life balance. Benefits include paid time off, parental leave, wellbeing and wellness support, flexible working arrangements, and learning and development opportunities. Benefits are effective from the first day of employment and may vary by location and role.
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Our vision for EQT employees is to build high performing & engaged teams. Our competitive edge comes from fostering an environment where every individual feels valued, empowered, and motivated to drive business impact. Our commitment to inclusion is not just about fairness; We understand and believe that being a great place to work drives the best performance.At EQT, inclusion is a business imperative and it's embedded into our talent strategy, decision-making, and culture to ensure that every individual and team operates at their full potential. By doing so, we unlock better collaboration, stronger innovation, and superior investment outcomes. About EQT
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of over three decades of developing companies across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT has EUR 270 billion in total assets under management (EUR 141 billion in fee-generating assets under management), within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.
With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does. EQT has offices in more than 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has more than 1,900 employees.
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