Engineering Lead (CFA)
Hello, let us introduce ourselves!
We are watchTowr, a VC-backed cybersecurity startup helping organizations continuously discover vulnerabilities in their Internet-facing attack surface. Cybersecurity 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 organizations, our mission is to enable organizations to continuously understand how an attacker would successfully compromise their business—with cutting-edge Attack Surface Management and Continuous Automated Red Teaming technology.
watchTowr was named within Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar report in 2023 and is utilized by Fortune 500 and other large enterprises globally. Our research is well-known and respected across the cybersecurity industry and can be found in various news outlets—while fueling the watchTowr Platform.
We are a young, high-energy, and high-performing team delivering world-class technology to help our clients prevent breaches. We are in a high and aggressive growth phase of our journey and are excited to continue adding colleagues to join our phorce of nature.
Our vision for offensive security is continuous.
But what’s the role?
We are looking for an ambitious Engineering Lead to join us and lead our Singapore-based Client Facing Applications (CFA) team, in our mission of helping organisations understand how they could be hacked - in real-time. This role is based in Singapore.
Sounds great – what will I do?
- You will lead the CFA Engineering Team in Singapore driving delivery of a scalable integration strategy as the watchTowr Platform grows.
- You will report into and work closely with the Head of Applications to align local delivery with the global CFA strategy, ensuring technical consistency and shared standards.
- You will act as line manager for the Singapore CFA engineers, including performance reviews, career development, and day-to-day coaching.
- You will determine appropriate and design normalisation or standardisation layers to enable rapid deployment and development of new integrations
- You will design workflows that reflect the flow of data between the watchTowr Platform, and various integration types.
- You will tackle technology and data problems – how do we handle large amounts of data and give our clients control over their data and the processes behind it?
Sounds perfect to me, what specifics are you looking for?
Ideal Experience
Ideally, you should have 5+ years of experience:
- Leading and managing engineering teams, including responsibility for performance reviews and team development.
- Demonstrated experience as a line manager, coaching engineers and building high-performing teams.
- Experience working in an early-stage B2B startup focusing on enterprise clients.
- Collaborating with clients to gather and analyze requirements for integrations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical capabilities.
- Establishing and building core SOPs for building integrations, implementing a strategy to facilitate rapid deployment of integrations.
- Designing and managing integrations (push, pull, bidirectional syncs) across diverse platforms such as cloud, RBVM, and data sources.
- Working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in:
- Backend: Node.js, Typescript
- Frontend: React.js, Typescript
- Database: MySQL
- Others: ECS, K8s, Airflow, Kafka, Serverless, AWS
- Working in Agile/DevOps-oriented environments.
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.
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.
- Department
- Engineering
- Role
- Engineering Lead (CFA)
- Locations
- Singapore
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
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