Founding Engineer - Cloud Security Startup

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge tech startup in London is seeking a Founding Product Engineer specializing in cloud security. You'll design distributed systems in C# for real-time threat detection, driving innovations in security engineering. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in object-oriented programming and cloud infrastructure. The role offers a competitive salary, equity options, and a chance to shape the future of security tech.

Benefits

Equity options

Competitive salary

Visa sponsorship

Qualifications

• Strong experience in object-oriented programming and distributed systems.
• Background in building performant, scalable platforms.
• Interest in security engineering and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems in C# for cloud-based threat detection.
• Develop scalable services that handle high-volume event data with real-time performance.
• Collaborate closely with founders to shape technical direction.
• Drive innovation in security engineering, from architecture to deployment.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Scalable platforms

Security engineering

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

C#

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Job description

Overview

Founding Product Engineer - Cloud Security

£80,000 - £120,000 + Equity & Benefits

Onsite 5 days p/week - Warren Street, London

Visa Sponsorship Available

Seed-Stage

Join a Seed stage start-up on a mission to slash mean time to respond to security incidents from months to minutes using intelligent, cloud-based security methods.

You'll be building the next generation of security infrastructure from the ground up and expanding platform capabilities - think high-performance C# systems, scalable cloud-native architecture, and detection tools designed for speed, precision and resilience.

What You'll Do

• Design and build distributed systems in C# for cloud-based threat detection.
• Develop scalable services that handle high-volume event data with real-time performance.
• Collaborate closely with founders to shape technical direction.
• Drive innovation in security engineering, from architecture to deployment.

You'll be a great fit if you have

• Strong experience in object-orientated programming and distributed systems (any backend language is fine).
• A background in building performant, scalable platforms.
• Interest in security engineering and cloud infrastructure.
• A Computer Science (or related) degree from a strong academic background.

Tech: C#, some Go & Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes (you can come from ANY backend programming language)

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