Security Associate - Internship (Cybersecurity)

Location: Paris, France; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global builds prevention insurance by integrating insurance, prevention, and care into a single user experience, serving more than 1M members and partnering with 40K+ companies.

What you will do

• Support governance, risk, and compliance activities, including ISO 27001, HDS certification, statutory IT audits, customer security reviews, and risk management.
• Manage vulnerabilities by triaging reports and scanner findings, driving fixes with engineering teams, and improving security tooling.
• Write detection rules, investigate alerts, and support incident response.
• Own technical security projects from framing through adoption, such as internal penetration testing, code scanning, remediation, audits, or tooling proofs of concept.
• Automate recurring security work and own a recurring security campaign end to end.
• Work with engineers and senior people across the company and write an end-of-studies thesis on a real security subject.

Requirements

• Be at the end of an engineering or security degree and looking for a six-month internship.
• Have solid foundations in security and IT and be able to apply them to a concrete case.
• Be able to code in Python and automate repetitive work.
• Show curiosity about unfamiliar topics, including compliance and not only offensive security.
• Understand risk prioritization and security trade-offs.
• Collaborate constructively with engineering teams and communicate clearly in structured written English.

Nice to have

• CTF participation, personal security projects, or a previous security internship.
• Cloud or SaaS experience.
• French language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month internship with a dedicated coach who guides the internship and supervises the thesis; the goal is a full-time role at hirify.global.
• Flexible office options, including the Paris HQ, sponsored coworking hubs, or full remote with home-office equipment sponsorship.
• Flexible vacation policy and working hours, with country-specific commuter benefits.
• MacBook Pro and other work equipment, including a monitor and noise-canceling headphones.
• Flexible training policy, books, conference budget, and coaching from the first day.

Hiring process

• Apply even if not every listed requirement is met; the requirements are a guide rather than a checklist.