Join as a founding engineer to scale a live, multi-tenant SaaS platform that automates complex cybersecurity investigations. You will build agentic AI systems, develop robust cloud infrastructure on GCP, and create critical evaluations for frontier AI labs. This is a high-impact role blending full-stack product ownership with site reliability engineering in a mission-driven environment.
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Founding Full Stack Engineer / SRE at Asymmetric Security
Asymmetric is building the first AI-native Digital Forensics platform to automate incident response for the AGI era. We are looking for a Founding Engineer to scale our production SaaS platform and develop agentic AI systems capable of handling complex cyber investigations. If you have experience with Python, FastAPI, and cloud-native infrastructure, this is your chance to lead technical development at a mission-driven startup protecting the next generation of AI labs. Join us in London to build the future of automated cyberdefense and help solve the most pressing security challenges of our time.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Asymmetric Security
Asymmetric Security is the first AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) company. It combines frontier AI models with senior cybersecurity experts to automate investigations, collecting artifacts across email, identity, and cloud applications, reconstructing attack timelines, generating recommendations, and delivering structured findings, compressing investigations from days to hours. The company responds to cyber incidents using in-house AI systems, builds realistic evaluations and benchmarks to advance AI cyberdefense capabilities, and has offices in London and San Francisco. Founded in 2025, it recently raised $4.2 million in pre-seed funding.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and deploy agentic AI systems using Python, FastAPI, and RAG to automate sophisticated cybersecurity investigation workflows.
- Scale and harden a cloud-native platform using React, PostgreSQL, DuckDB, and Terraform on GCP to support enterprise-grade multi-tenancy.
- Lead the development of cyberdefense evaluations and observability frameworks to measure and improve AI performance against real-world cyber attacks.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of shipping production software with strong Python backend skills and experience in async programming or task pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure, containerization (Docker), and building CI/CD processes for data-intensive workloads.
- Deeply motivated by the mission to accelerate AI cyberdefense, with a background or strong interest in digital forensics and incident response.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at the frontier of AI and cybersecurity, building the world's first AI-native platform specifically designed to automate digital forensics and incident response.
- Ship to a live production environment with established product-market fit, directly influencing the security posture of frontier AI labs and enterprise customers.
- Take a foundational role in a high-caliber team where you will make key architectural decisions and shape the engineering culture from the ground up.
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