Job Title
Founding Engineer - Early Careers
Salary
£50K – £70K + Equity
Company Description
Tracebit is a $20M Series A London cybersecurity startup backed by FirstMark and Accel that builds cloud intrusion detection using canaries. Their decoy tripwire technology protects major organizations like Riot Games, Docker, and Snyk, recently gaining acclaim for discovering a critical P1 security flaw in Google's Gemini CLI.
Job Description
As a Founding Engineer at Tracebit, you will join an elite team building honeytoken-based security tools. Reporting to the Engineering Lead, you will ship production code daily across the full stack while utilizing cutting-edge AI development tools. This role offers unparalleled learning velocity and founder exposure in a high-growth, office-based environment.
Location
London, UK
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-growth startup that just raised a $20M Series A led by FirstMark and Accel to redefine cloud security.
- Unparalleled learning velocity with founder-level exposure and the chance to influence a product already trusted by global tech giants.
- Work in a high-talent environment that recently discovered a P1 security flaw in Google’s Gemini CLI, ensuring your work has global impact.
What You Will Do
- Build and deploy decoy tripwires using C# on .NET Core 10, Terraform, and HTMX to detect advanced cloud intrusions.
- Collaborate directly with the CTO and Engineering Lead to ship customer-facing features daily with minimal bureaucracy or process.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools like Claude and Codex to accelerate your engineering output and solve complex architectural challenges.
The ideal candidate
- Strong academic foundation with a degree in a STEM subject like Computer Science or Physics and a track record of excellence.
- Proven ability to write clean, correct code in a known language with a deep curiosity for how systems function.
- Demonstrated passion for building through side projects, open-source contributions, or hackathons, showing a clear bias for action and delivery.
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