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.
Founding Engineer - Early Careers at Tracebit
Join Tracebit as a Founding Engineer and help redefine cloud security at a pivotal moment. This is a rare early-careers role offering founder-level exposure, meaningful equity, and the chance to ship code daily to demanding customers. Based in Central London, you will work across the stack using C#, .NET, and AI-assisted tools. If you are a high-achieving STEM graduate with a passion for building things that matter, this is your chance to join a rocket ship at the ground floor.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£50k-£70k + Equity
Company
Tracebit
Role overview
Computer and Network Security24 employees
Tracebit generates and maintains tailored canary resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps in stock protection without time and cost intensive detection engineering.
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.
Who this is a fit for
- 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.
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.
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