Hello, let us introduce ourselves!

We are watchTowr, a global cybersecurity startup redefining the External Attack Surface Management space with our Continuous Automated Red Teaming technology, the watchTowr Platform.

Cyber security veterans and technical experts, we are obsessed with building cybersecurity technology to help prevent breaches. With experience informed by years of simulating sophisticated cyber attacks against some of the world's largest banks, insurers and governments - our mission is to enable organisations to continuously understand how an attacker would successfully compromise their business, data and environment.

watchTowr was named within Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar report in 2023, and is utilised by Fortune 500 and other large enterprises globally. Our vulnerability and exploit development research is well-known and respected across the cybersecurity industry, and can be found in various news outlets - while fuelling the watchTowr Platform.

We are a young, high-energy and high-performing team delivering world-class technology to help our clients prevent breaches. We have raised a total of $29M USD to date to build our vision, and are in a high and aggressive growth phase of our journey. We are excited to continue adding colleagues to join our force of nature.

But what’s the role?

We are looking for an ambitious Principal Cyber Security Engineer with deep expertise in networking and building/scaling distributed systems to join us and work with the watchTowr Labs to expand our proactive threat detection capabilities, in our mission of helping organisations understand how they could be compromised - in real-time.

Sounds great – what will I do?

• Security Infrastructure Innovation: Lead R&D projects that push the limits and build out infrastructure to uncover and create workflows around actively exploited vulnerabilities to provide actionable insights for the Labs team and our clients
• Architecting Global, Secure, Scalable Solutions: Design scalable infrastructure that can handle both virtualized and cloud native workloads, which underpin our proactive detection networks and data pipelines, ensuring they perform efficiently and securely
• Cloud-Driven Engineering: Utilise cloud-native services to develop resilient, big data solutions that forms part of our offensive security & data processing capabilities.
• Telemetry Pipeline Development: Engineer and maintain robust telemetry pipelines that seamlessly process security data, delivering real-time insights to enhance our capabilities.

Sounds perfect to me, what specifics are you looking for?

Ideal Traits

We would love to talk to you if have at least 5 years or more years infrastructure engineering experience, together with the following traits:

• Passion for Security Data Pipelines: Experience or exposure in building and deploying data pipelines and workflows for security, preferably with an understanding of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Experience: Proven experience in working with and scaling workloads on virtualization platforms like ESXi/vSphere or similar technologies, and integrating these workloads with scalable cloud-based solutions to support intensive data processing and real-time threat analysis.
• Deep Networking Expertise: You know your way around manipulating packets and routing them in any way that you desire and have deep hands on expertise in designing secure internal networks. Knowledge on various network tools to capture and dissect traffic is a bonus!
• Innovative Mindset: A proactive approach to security research and problem solving, with the ability to navigate complex, ambiguous challenges and deliver practical solutions.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages, with a strong emphasis on building scalable, maintainable code.

Bonus Experience

It’ll also be awesome if you:

• Have worked on and/or built custom infrastructure for pipelines and workflows for security telemetry
• Have experience working with significant amounts of data and handling ‘big data’ for security analysis
• Have a strong hands-on understanding of networking and virtualization platforms
• Understand common vulnerabilities and weaknesses on application security, network security, or cloud security.

What’s in it for me?

• Competitive compensation - we believe that hard work, skills and ambition should be fairly compensated.
• Meaningful role in a company - You will be a key and early contributor to a fast-growing cybersecurity business that helps protect some of the world's largest enterprises.
• The best tools and powerful kit - we enable you with the tools to effectively fulfil your role.
• Endless opportunities – we are in a high-growth phase of our journey, and plan to promote from within as we scale.
• Work with cyber security experts – we are solving cutting-edge industry-wide cyber security challenges with some of the world’s most advanced organisations.

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watchTowr is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

At watchTowr, we’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and diverse environment where every individual is recognised for their talent and potential. Our hiring decisions are guided by your capabilities, experience, and what you bring to the role - not by unrelated personal attributes.

We have a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination or harassment. This includes - but isn’t limited to - discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We actively encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Even if you don’t tick every box in the job description, we’d still love to hear from you.