Job Description

Company: Itinero

About Itinero

Itinero is building the future of AI-powered travel. We are creating a platform that makes travel planning, booking, itinerary creation, and travel discovery smarter, faster, and more personalized through AI.

We’re a team of 12 today — engineers, AI, design, and operations — building Itinero together remotely. We’re early-stage, so everyone here owns meaningful slices of the product and ships with real autonomy.

We’re looking for passionate people who want to help create something meaningful from the ground up.

Please note: this is currently an unpaid/volunteer opportunity during the early growth phase of the startup. Selected team members may receive future paid opportunities, leadership roles, recommendation letters, portfolio-building experience, and the opportunity to grow with the company long term.

Role: Cybersecurity Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Cybersecurity Engineer to help secure Itinero as we build an AI-powered travel platform — from cloud infrastructure and APIs to application code and customer data.

This is not a monitoring-only role. We are looking for someone who can help design and establish the company’s security foundation from scratch, working closely with engineering and DevOps to build secure systems, workflows, and operational practices as the platform scales.

The ideal candidate should have at least 3+ years of hands-on cybersecurity, cloud security, DevSecOps, or infrastructure security experience.

This role suits someone who enjoys ownership, practical security engineering, startup environments, and building systems from the ground up. Responsibilities

Design and help establish Itinero’s core security architecture and operational security practices from scratch

Participate in security reviews of features, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment changes

Help assess vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation with engineering teams

Support secure SDLC practices — threat awareness, code review input, and security validation processes

Implement AWS and cloud security best practices — IAM least privilege, network segmentation, storage security, and access control

Improve secrets management and safe handling of credentials, tokens, and API keys

Help define logging, monitoring, incident response workflows, escalation procedures, and security documentation

Collaborate with DevOps on deployments, CI/CD security, infrastructure hardening, and operational security

Build awareness around compliance, privacy, and secure handling of travel and customer data

Recommend and implement practical startup-friendly security tooling and processes Skills Needed

3+ years of practical experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, DevSecOps, or infrastructure security

Strong understanding of security fundamentals — confidentiality, integrity, availability, and common attack vectors

Good understanding of networking concepts — DNS, TLS/SSL, VPNs, firewalls, proxies, and web/mobile communication

Strong Linux and command-line troubleshooting skills

Cloud security knowledge, especially AWS (IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, VPC, security groups, CloudWatch concepts)

Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10 and modern web/API security risks

Familiarity with Git/GitHub workflows and collaborative development environments

Ability to independently set up security processes, workflows, and best practices in an early-stage startup

Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and stakeholders

Strong ownership mindset and willingness to work in a fast-moving startup environment Bonus Skills

Security certifications such as Security+, CEH, CISSP, or AWS Security Specialty

Experience with penetration testing or bug-bounty methodologies

Familiarity with SIEM, logging, monitoring, and alerting systems

Experience with SAST/DAST tooling, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and CI/CD security

Experience securing APIs, payment systems, authentication flows, or consumer-facing platforms

Familiarity with SOC 2, GDPR, PCI-DSS, or privacy/security compliance basics Location: Remote

Type: Volunteer / Unpaid (Early-Stage Startup Opportunity)

Source: BeBee