Founding Engineer, Tracebit

Accel-Backed Cybersecurity Startup

£70-100k

Generous equity included

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Azure

.NET Core

Mid and Senior level

London

5 days a week in office (Fitrovia, London)

Accel-backed cloud threat detection and deception platform

Open for applications

Accel-backed cloud threat detection and deception platform

1-20 employees

B2BSaaSCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Open for applications

£70-100k

Generous equity included

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Azure

.NET Core

Mid and Senior level

London

5 days a week in office (Fitrovia, London)

1-20 employees

B2BSaaSCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Company mission

To reduce the time it takes to detect and contain security incidents from months to minutes.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Cares deeply about producing high quality work and is ready to dig into the details but is savvy in making the correct tradeoffs on pace vs. quality
Has spent at least a few years shipping software at some degree of scale and/or criticality
Ideally at a Product focused company and/or working with at least 1 of the public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
Is excited by the pace and rate of change that is inevitable in any successful, early stage startup
Gets their energy from getting things done and in the hands of customers but is also here to have fun along the way!

What the job involves

We are a seed stage startup (backed by Accel and Tapestry VC), building a security product to help detect threats in the cloud and enterprise. We’re pretty young as a company but we’ve already scaled to some impressive customers (Riot Games, Docker and Synthesia to name a few!) and consistently delight our customers with the rate at which we ship new features and the quality of our work
We have two spaces remaining for ‘Founding Engineers’ on the team - could this be you?
We’re solving real problems for discerning organisations, our stack is simple and powerful: it’s enabling us to process billions of events a week while shipping every day. We’re using a lot of what you would expect (AWS, IaC, CD) but also a few things you probably wouldn’t!
Reporting to Sam, our CTO and Co-Founder, you’ll join a team of other awesome engineers (Michael, Niall, Nico and Rahul) looking to make their mark on the world
Working face to face with both founders, the whole engineering team and our customers and prospects to build a delightful product that solves real problems
Working across the stack, mostly in C# on .NET Core 8 but also Terraform and building out our frontend in HTMX
All the good practices you’d expect from technical co-founders who’ve done this before (CD, Infrastructure as code, simple but scalable and powerful architecture)
We’re a small, tight team with demanding customers so expect to be shipping every day with very little bureaucracy
We’re based in a Central London office and work here 5 days a week (and everyone we hire will too)

Application process

30 minute initial call with founder or lead engineer - understanding your motivations and achievements so far (video call)
1h code pairing exercise (video call)
1.5-2h final interview with the wider team, likely including pair programming and design questions (in our London office)

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Tracebit is a cybersecurity company specialising in intrusion detection solutions using deception techniques, such as canaries and honeypots. While effective, these methods are often costly and complex, limiting their broader use. Tracebit addresses these challenges by leveraging modern cloud practices for quick and efficient scaling.

By connecting securely to cloud environments and recommending realistic canaries based on unique profiles, Tracebit allows users rapid deployment through infrastructure-as-a-code. As environments evolve, Tracebit continuously adapts its canary configuration to keep potential intruders guessing, ensuring ongoing protection.

Recent funding will allow the company to further its developments and expand its team, enabling the company to broaden its offerings. With this strong backing and innovative approach, Tracebit is ready to solidify its position in the cybersecurity space.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (1 round)

Jul 2024

$5m

SEED

Total funding: $5m

Company benefits

Generous equity included

Company HQ

Fitzrovia, London, UK

Articles

Cybersecurity innovator Tracebit lands $5m to enhance cloud security deception

Canary Infra: Bringing Honeypots towards general adoption

Leadership

Andy Smith

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously, Head of Engineering at Tessian, where he grew the Engineering team from 7 to over 100 people, through Series A, B, C and $130m investment (Accel, Balderton, Sequoia).

Sam Cox

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Former lead Architect at Tessian, processing millions of sensitive email transactions weekly. Cambridge Maths graduate.

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