We're looking for a Security Engineer to join our team to help build secure products and infrastructure across every part of Yoto.
About 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 also create Yoto Originals like BrainBots.
Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.
Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.
Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50.
Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.
We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing!
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!
Yoto’s Technology Team
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'll work alongside engineers, product managers, and teams across Legal and Data — helping us grow a security function that's as curious and creative as the product it protects.
What you’ll be doing:
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.
What you’ll bring:
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.
Clear, confident communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams alike.
A collaborative mindset and a genuine commitment to helping others build secure systems — not just flagging problems, but solving them together.
Nice to have:
Experience with embedded systems or IoT security.
Experience securing AWS or other cloud environments.
Experience with incident response or detection engineering.
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 based on experience
What you can expect from Yoto:
Flexibility: Hybrid working - At least1 day a week on average in our central London office. You are welcome and encouraged to come in more than this. How you meet the minimum expectation is up to you, to ensure you're happy and productive in your role whilst also getting that vital face time with your colleagues. 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 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.
People & Planet: Up to 2 volunteer days a year. A Book Allowance of up to £50 a year to contribute to your professional development.
Fun Perks: You receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards! Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!
Equity and Diversity
At Yoto, we love creating a world where childhood is rich with discovery and joy. We’re also passionate about building a workplace where everyone can thrive - both professionally and personally. We value flexibility and give our team the freedom to balance life and work in ways that suit them.
We're committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment where all individuals, regardless of their background, feel valued and supported. 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 don’t just embrace differences - we celebrate them. We share audio content from a vibrant and diverse community of creators (check out our DEI selection), and we are building a team that reflects that same diversity. We invite candidates from all walks of life to explore opportunities with us and join a company that champions flexibility, equity, and inclusion. Take a look at our website for more information on our approach to People and Planet.
Please only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page (careers.yotoplay.com or careers.yotoplay.com/en). All correspondence from our Talent team will only come through Teamtailor, our application tracking system.
