At a Glance
- Tasks: Join us to build secure products and infrastructure for Yoto's innovative audio platform.
- Company: Yoto, a fast-growing tech company creating screen-free audio experiences for kids.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, generous holiday, private medical insurance, and a supportive workplace culture.
- Other info: Diversity and inclusion are at our core; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on children's play and learning while enhancing your security skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in security, coding skills, and a collaborative mindset are essential.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We're looking for a Security Engineer to join our team to help build secure products and infrastructure across every part of Yoto.
Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music.
We're on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it!
Our Technology team builds and operates the platform that powers everything Yoto does — from the firmware on our players to the cloud services that deliver audio to kids around the world. Security sits at the heart of this: as a small, cross-cutting team, we partner with every part of the business to make sure what we build is secure by design.
You will:
- Partner with engineering teams to design, build and ship secure products and features.
- Review code, infrastructure and system designs for security risks, and work directly with teams to resolve them.
- Build and improve security tooling, automation and guardrails that help security scale across Yoto.
- Maintain and strengthen our security controls, monitoring and detection capabilities.
- Investigate security issues and incidents, coordinating response and remediation across the business.
- Partner with Legal, Data and other teams to improve security practices and support compliance.
Requirements:
- Deep interest in security with hands-on experience across at least one area — whether that's product security, cloud infrastructure, detection engineering, or compliance — and a genuine appetite to grow into others.
- A specialist foundation in security, with the curiosity and drive to become a well-rounded security engineer over time.
- Comfortable writing and reviewing code in at least one modern programming language.
- A collaborative mindset and a genuine commitment to helping others build secure systems — not just flagging problems, but solving them together.
- Experience with embedded systems or IoT security.
- Experience securing AWS or other cloud environments.
Salary: 70,000 - 90,000 based on experience
What you can expect from Yoto:
- Flexibility: Hybrid working - At least 1 day a week on average in our central London office. Take advantage of our 'work from anywhere' policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year. Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
- Financial: Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service. Life Assurance cover from day one of your service. Workplace Pension offering up to 3% employer contributions, following probation. Generous employee referral bonus scheme.
- Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy. Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare and unlimited access to Dental advice and guidance via Toothfairy. Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.
- Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays. On top of this, you also receive your birthday off, plus 1 extra day of holiday for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to 5 extra days. After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.
- Helping Families: Variety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave. Unlock savings with our workplace nursery scheme, designed to support parents of preschool-aged children.
- A Book Allowance of up to 50 a year to contribute to your professional development.
We're also passionate about building a workplace where everyone can thrive - both professionally and personally. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group holds bi-monthly forums to elevate diverse voices and perspectives, ensuring everyone at Yoto feels heard, respected, and appreciated.
We invite candidates from all walks of life to explore opportunities with us and join a company that champions flexibility, equity, and inclusion.
Senior Security Engineer(Hybrid) in London employer: Yoto
Yoto is an exceptional employer that prioritises flexibility and employee well-being, offering a hybrid working model and generous benefits such as private medical insurance and enhanced family leave. With a vibrant work culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion, Yoto fosters professional growth through continuous learning opportunities and a supportive environment, making it an ideal place for those passionate about creating meaningful audio experiences for children.
