You will design and operate high-performance Golang systems responsible for ingesting and processing massive volumes of internet data. Working across distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and customer-facing APIs, you will solve complex engineering challenges at the intersection of cybersecurity and large-scale data engineering in a high-trust, low-bureaucracy environment.
Senior Software Engineer at Infrawatch
Join Infrawatch as a Senior Software Engineer and help build the infrastructure intelligence layer for the public internet. Operating at a scale of 23.5 billion events daily, you'll design high-performance Golang systems to detect global cyberattacks and fraud in real-time. This is a rare opportunity to join a small, elite team where you own the architecture and ship production systems that protect the world's most advanced organizations. If you're a distributed systems expert looking for a high-trust, high-impact environment with £80k-£120k salary plus meaningful equity, this remote UK role is for you.
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Location
Remote (United Kingdom)
Compensation
£80k-£120k + Equity
Company
Infrawatch
Role overview
Cyber Security5-10 employees
Infrawatch is a London-based cybersecurity startup that helps organisations detect malicious internet infrastructure in real time. Its platform monitors IPs, domains, proxies, VPNs and command-and-control servers, helping security and fraud teams stop attacks, scams and online abuse sooner.
What you will do
- Design and scale real-time streaming systems and large-scale batch pipelines using Golang, Kafka, and ClickHouse to handle massive internet data.
- Build reliable, low-latency APIs and backend services that model and serve extremely large intelligence datasets to enterprise customers.
- Investigate complex failures across distributed infrastructure, improving observability and ensuring system resilience under heavy load and adversarial conditions.
Who this is a fit for
- Has substantial production experience building and operating high-performance backend services in Go, specifically focused on distributed systems and data engineering.
- Demonstrates deep technical expertise with event-driven architectures, including hands-on experience with Kafka, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, or Redis at scale.
- Possesses a pragmatic engineering mindset, capable of managing the full lifecycle of complex systems and making sound trade-offs regarding throughput, latency, and cost.
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at extreme scale, building systems that process 23.5 billion events daily—a volume of data most engineering teams will never encounter.
- Experience true ownership with zero layers of bureaucracy, moving projects from technical design to global production with direct influence on architecture.
- Join a category-defining company early, taking the lead on technical foundations that protect some of the world’s most advanced organizations from cyber threats.
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