At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our founding team to build secure automation solutions for web tasks.
- Company: Aglide, a pioneering tech startup focused on security and automation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, unlimited PTO, and annual learning budget.
- Other info: Inclusive culture committed to diverse career opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape the future of security while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in software development with strong security fundamentals.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
At Aglide, our founding engineers take on high-ownership roles, working directly with customers to invent new ways to securely and reliably automate web tasks - shaping product direction and building the core infrastructure for a category that’s still being invented.
What we do:
- User login: Automating user sign-in to work accounts to give security teams visibility and policy enforcement.
- Lifecycle: Completing admin tasks inside applications (e.g., creating users) to save time, reduce human error, and tighten access control.
Our platform lets non-technical users configure these workflows for any application. We are working with companies ranging from decacorn financial services scale-ups to public insurance companies. Their employees depend on Aglide to access mission-critical applications - from everyday SaaS tools to corporate bank accounts; while their security teams count on it to maintain compliance and defend against attackers — including, at times, state-sponsored threats.
What you’ll be building:
- Security architecture and threat modelling: Identifying vulnerabilities across the stack and designing systems that are resilient against real-world attack vectors, including those from sophisticated and state-sponsored actors.
- Compliance and audit tooling: Building the internal controls and logging infrastructure that support SOC 2 and other compliance frameworks our enterprise customers require.
- Platform controls and analytics: Giving customers more visibility and control over how their automations run — and giving our team the observability to detect and respond to anomalies.
- Secure product features: Contributing full-stack across our dashboard, desktop app, and backend to ship features that embed security into the product experience, not just the infrastructure.
How you’ll build it:
- Independently and confidently: You’ll have significant ownership and autonomy — meaningfully shaping our priorities through the roadmap you influence and the problems you choose to solve.
- Across the stack: You’ll ship by contributing across everything — the dashboard, desktop app, backend services, and IaC configurations — with a security lens at every layer.
- With high commitment: You’ll go from problem identified to solution shipped in days, even if it means working long nights and weekends.
The skills we’re looking for:
- Must-have:
- 3+ years software experience: Looking for people who have built production software for real users, with meaningful exposure to security-sensitive environments.
- Strong security fundamentals: A deep understanding of applied cryptography, zero-trust principles, secure software development, and common vulnerability classes (e.g. OWASP Top 10).
- Desire for ownership: One engineer is responsible end-to-end — meeting a customer, diagnosing issues, designing a fix, and shipping to production (sometimes within a week).
- Nice to have:
- Security experience: Building secure systems; comfort with zero-trust concepts and end-to-end encryption.
- Identity/SSO exposure: Familiarity with products like Okta, 1Password, Entra ID, JAMF, or similar tools used by IT and security teams.
- Compliance experience: Hands-on work with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or enterprise security review processes.
- Secure AI systems: Experience thinking critically about data security in the context of AI — including how to leverage cutting-edge AI capabilities without compromising the confidentiality of sensitive customer data.
- Penetration testing or red teaming: Offensive security experience that informs how you build defensively.
The benefits we offer:
- Competitive salary and generous equity: We want you to have a meaningful share of the billion-dollar company we are building.
- Central Office: Work in our London Shoreditch office, or SF office.
- Private medical and dental insurance.
- Socials & Offsites: Frequent dinners and events, and an annual international offsite.
- Annual learning and development budget.
- Unlimited PTO: We’ll make sure you take enough time off to sustain the intensity and commitment the role demands.
- Relocation or Travel: We have offices in SF and London, and are keen for the team to travel between offices, or even relocate.
Our commitment to inclusion: Before founding Aglide, Oliver and I helped establish an organisation dedicated to encouraging people from disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to pursue careers in engineering. When we founded Aglide, we wanted to carry that commitment forward by actively working to create inclusive career opportunities. We are proud that everyone who has joined Aglide shares this commitment and is holding us accountable to it. Aglide is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Product Security Engineer (Founding team) in London employer: Aglide Inc.
Aglide Inc. is an exceptional employer for those looking to make a significant impact in the tech industry. Located in the vibrant city of London, we foster a culture of autonomy and collaboration, providing our employees with the opportunity to work directly with customers and shape innovative solutions. With a focus on employee growth and a commitment to building secure, scalable infrastructure, Aglide offers a dynamic environment where your contributions are valued and rewarded.