Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE (Hybrid)7 open jobs
Bertelsmann is a privately held German media, services, and education conglomerate founded in 1835, operating broadcasting, streaming, publishing, music, marketing, and education businesses in about 50 countries.
Bertelsmann is a privately held German conglomerate, founded in 1835 and headquartered in Gütersloh, with more than 76,000 employees across roughly 50 countries and €19 billion in revenue in the 2025 financial year. For security work, the interesting part isn't the balance sheet - it's the attack surface. The company runs broadcasting and streaming, content production, publishing, music, marketing services, business services, education, and investment management, each with its own data classes, vendors, and regulatory exposure.
The operating units are the real scope: RTL Group (broadcast, streaming, content and digital), Penguin Random House, BMG, Arvato Group, Bertelsmann Marketing Services, Bertelsmann Education Group, and Bertelsmann Investments. That mix spans subscriber and audience data, ad and marketing pipelines, rights and royalties systems, editorial and manuscript workflows, logistics and business-process platforms, and portfolio-company oversight. The threat model is a federated one: heterogeneous platforms, third-party service chains, and content supply chains that touch production and distribution directly.
The stated culture signals are compliance, ethical business practice, and responsibility toward employees, society, and the environment - a governance frame that matters when work crosses approximately 50 jurisdictions. The company describes itself as emphasizing creativity and entrepreneurship; the technical domains listed above are where that shows up in engineering terms.
