Security Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Security Engineer (Cybersecurity): Designing and building secure systems from the ground up and mitigating vulnerabilities within an AI incident response platform with an accent on application security, secure coding practices, and infrastructure security. Focus on proactively finding security flaws, implementing pragmatic security tooling, and championing security awareness across engineering.

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom. Must be able to commit to 3 days in the office per week. Visa sponsorship is available for the United Kingdom.

Salary: £110,000–£200,000 plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a leading AI incident response platform built to help teams dramatically reduce incident response time and improve reliability for over 1,500 companies including Netflix and Airbnb.

What you will do

• Partner with product teams to design and review features with security built in from the start.
• Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities using white-box (code review, architecture analysis) and black-box (penetration testing, fuzzing) techniques.
• Proactively find security flaws in applications, APIs, and infrastructure, and help teams remediate them quickly.
• Introduce pragmatic security tooling and automation to strengthen defences without slowing down delivery.
• Champion secure coding practices and raise security awareness across the engineering organisation, including collaborating on incident response.

Requirements

• Track record of finding and remediating application security vulnerabilities, ideally demonstrated through in-depth security research, penetration testing, or red teaming.
• Hands-on experience with white-box and black-box testing techniques and tools.
• Familiarity with secure software development in modern web applications (React, Go, TypeScript, Postgres, or similar stacks).
• Comfortable embedding within product teams and influencing design and implementation decisions.
• Experience with cloud security in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Must be able to commit to 3 days in the office per week in London.
• Visa sponsorship for the United Kingdom is a consideration.

Culture & Benefits

• Market leading private medical insurance.
• Generous parental leave and annual leave/PTO allowance.
• First Friday of the month off.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Remote working and personal development budget.
• Enhanced pension.