Security Software Engineer II
Qualtrics
Software Engineering
Kraków, Poland
Posted on Jan 30, 2026
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Security Software Engineer II - Krakow
Why We Have This Role
Qualtrics is growing exponentially and that growth results in a constantly evolving threat landscape. Our team is a collection of extremely passionate security engineers, continuously evaluating security of our systems, identifying and responding to potential threats, and implementing alerts, tooling and automation necessary to maintain a strong security posture at scale. Our team is empowered to choose technologies that best solve each problem and to design its own custom tooling, where off-the-shelf products would not suffice. We’re looking for an experienced software engineer with additional experience or interest in security, who will maintain and evolve our custom codebase used to tackle daily challenges of our global Security Operations Center.
How You’ll Find Success
- As a Security Software Engineer at Qualtrics, you should love building simple solutions to solve hard scalability problems. Designing systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth and owning quality from end to end is a rewarding challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work.
- You should be proactive, self-managed, and able to interface well with interdisciplinary teams across the organization.
- Your natural curiosity of discovering the unknown drives your success.
- You’re interested in developing your cybersecurity skillset, including incident response, reverse engineering of malware and building custom detections
How You’ll Grow
- You will have a chance to participate in and/or lead a variety of interesting security projects, both short and multi-quarter ones, likes of which are normally reserved for isolated functions
- You will develop your software engineering skills by using the tools you develop and working directly with other users
- You will have the opportunity to learn security skills directly from talented engineers of varied backgrounds, ranging from incident responders, through application security engineers to enterprise architects
- We’re very open to new ideas. Not every project has to be a resounding success and you can use up to 10% of your total work time on self-development in any direction of your choosing.
Things You’ll Do
- Maintain our custom codebase (especially SOAR) written in modern Python using various databases like Redis and AWS Aurora
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance and stability
- Support the team in building automation
- Plan and develop scalable, fast, robust, and simple solutions to solve complex problems
- Participate in code reviews
- Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineers
- Integrate our codebase with security tooling (SIEM, EDR etc.) and company products
- Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value
- Provide leadership, mentoring and training in software development to other security engineers
- Occasionally shadow/participate in SOC oncall/incident response duties, to stay tuned to the teams’ requirements and use of your products
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- 3+ years of relevant software development experience
- Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
- Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
- Experience with professional software engineering practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documents)
- Experience with Microservices Architecture and distributed systems
- Experience with cloud computing and AWS services
- Strong understanding of networking and associated protocols
- Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
- Security operations or security engineering experience is not required, but very welcome
- Experience with SIEMs (Splunk, SumoLogic etc.) is not required, but very welcome
- Experience with Multiple Operating Systems with a System Administrator level skill set on MacOS and Linux is not required, but very welcome
What You Should Know About This Team
- The Qualtrics Security Operations & Engineering team is composed of a tightly-knit group of engineers with varied backgrounds and experiences.
- We believe in cooperation, value experimentation, continuous learning and push the boundaries of traditional security operation practices. We embrace change and thrive on solving complex challenges.
- In Qualtrics SOC, all team members know how to code - we don't have pure "Security Analyst" positions. We believe that through automation we can detect and respond to threats better than typical SOCs.
- Your ideas will be heard, and your collaboration will be essential. You'll have opportunities to expand your expertise, contribute to high-visibility projects, and advance your career in cybersecurity and software development. Joining our team means stepping into a role that's vital, challenging, and deeply linked to Qualtrics' aim of reshaping industries by harnessing the power of Experience Management and AI.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Tax-deductible expenses (up to 75% depending on role)
- Experience bonus: 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
- Wellness: Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Twic.
- Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each full year of service (to a max of 5).
- Private Medical Insurance: Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
- Commuter Assistance: Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
- Savings Plan: Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO)
- Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support, engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
- A choice of Multispot cards available.
- Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees
- Group Life & Income Protection Insurance
- Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement
- Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks for everyone in the office
- Quarterly team activity
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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