Engineering Manager, Search Engine (all genders)

Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers including Google Maps and Booking.com. We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. We are one of the fastest growing startups in travel, backed by leading venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, and are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Following our recent $80m Series C funding, we are ready to push beyond. We are looking for our first dedicated Senior Product/Application Security Engineer to build our AppSec practice from the ground up. This is a greenfield opportunity with a real attack surface: public partner-facing APIs and payment flows. You will own secure development, define what gets reviewed, implement security gates, build the "paved road" for ~150 engineers, and see the impact of your work in production within weeks. What you will do: Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews for high-risk changes, partner integrations, and payment flows. Implement, tune, and enforce security gates in GitLab CI/CD (SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and DAST) while minimizing developer friction. Act as the primary technical owner for triaging, reproducing, and prioritizing findings from bug bounties, partner pentests, and automated scanners. Work hands-on with the DevOps team to implement GCP organizational policies, IAM least-privilege architectures, and Cloud Armor (WAF/rate limiting). Establish a security-champions network across engineering squads and leverage automation/AI-assisted tooling to scale code reviews effectively. Own vulnerability management end to end: a risk-ranked backlog, remediation SLAs, an escalation path, and closing fin…

Publié 19 Oct 2026

About us Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers including Google Maps and Booking.com . We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. We are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel, backed by leading venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, and are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Following our recent $80m Series C funding, we are ready to push beyond. The opportunity As the Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure domain , you will lead the teams responsible for the foundations that power Distribusion's products and operations. Covering Platform Engineering, IT, and Information Security, your mission is to build scalable, secure, and reliable systems that enable our engineering teams and the wider business to operate at their best. To prepare our technical foundation for 10x growth, we are looking for a highly strategic, business-oriented leader to transform how these critical functions operate. You will act as the crucial bridge between our infrastructure and the broader company by professionalising our tech stack, driving complex vendor negotiations, and building transparent roadmaps that clearly showcase your team's impact. What you will do You'll lead the teams that keep Distribusion running securely, reliably, and at scale. From cloud infrastructure and developer tooling to internal IT and information security, you'll be responsible for the platforms and processes that enable our teams to move fast with confidence. You'll grow and support a team spanning Platform Engineering, IT, and Security, helping define strategy, drive execution, and raise the bar for operatio…

Publié 14 Oct 2026

About us Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail, and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers, including Google Maps and Booking.com . We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. Having grown 10x in the past year, we are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel. Backed by four leading VCs (TQ Ventures, Creandum, Northzone, and Lightrock), and now, following our recent $80 m Series C, we are ready to push beyond. The opportunity We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer to own and evolve our core systems end-to-end. You’ll join our engineering team and work closely with product, operations, and data stakeholders across the business. Your work will power high-scale systems used by both internal operators and external users, directly impacting large volumes of real-world activity. What you will do: Build a customer-facing transit schedule system that handles hundreds of thousands of bus departures daily. The system serves hundreds of thousands of travellers and is used by hundreds of operators, including operations teams, revenue managers, and planners. Build a ticket booking backend that allocates bus seats to travellers. Design smart allocation strategies to maximise seat usage across stops, and handle complex reallocation scenarios such as vehicle swaps, bus merges, and reinforcements. Build a revenue management system that dynamically prices seats based on time to departure, demand, and remaining capacity. Support carrier-controlled pricing, A/B testing, and automated pricing algorithms. Own and evolve the data transformation layer that powers schedules, bookings, and revenue. Design robust models, incremental pipelines, and clear semantic defi…

Publié 10 Oct 2026