Join to apply for the Principal Cyber Security Engineer role at watchTowrwatchTowr is the Preemptive Exposure Management capability trusted by Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers.By combining proactive threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry, and automated red teaming, watchTowr continuously identifies and validates real exposure - so security teams can outrun real-world threats.When exploitation happens in hours, watchTowr delivers what no one else can: time to respond.We are a global team of operators, researchers, and engineers who have spent years thinking like attackers - and we are now building the technology to stop them. Our work is recognised across the industry, with original vulnerability research from watchTowr Labs and innovations like Instinct and Attacker Eye shaping the future of cybersecurity.Backed by $29M in funding, recognised by Gartner, and scaling fast across the globe, we are in a high-growth phase of our journey. We are a young, high-energy, and research-driven team, obsessed with building world-class technology - and we want exceptional people to join us.Hello, let us introduce ourselves!watchTowr is the Preemptive Exposure Management capability trusted by Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers.By combining proactive threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry, and automated red teaming, watchTowr continuously identifies and validates real exposure - so security teams can outrun real-world threats.When exploitation happens in hours, watchTowr delivers what no one else can: time to respond.We are a global team of operators, researchers, and engineers who have spent years thinking like attackers - and we are now building the technology to stop them. Our work is recognised across the industry, with original vulnerability research from watchTowr Labs and innovations like Instinct and Attacker Eye shaping the future of cybersecurity.Backed by $29M in funding, recognised by Gartner, and scaling fast across the globe, we are in a high-growth phase of our journey. We are a young, high-energy, and research-driven team, obsessed with building world-class technology - and we want exceptional people to join us.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 clientsArchitecting 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 securelyCloud-Driven Engineering: Utilise cloud-native services to develop resilient, big data solutions that form 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 TraitsWe would love to talk to you if you have at least 5 years or more years of 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 of 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 ExperienceIt’ll also be awesome if you:Have worked on and/or built custom infrastructure for pipelines and workflows for security telemetryHave experience working with significant amounts of data and handling ‘big data’ for security analysisHave a strong hands-on understanding of networking and virtualization platformsUnderstand 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.watchTowr is proud to be an Equal Opportunity EmployerAt 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr