Founding Engineer; Full Stack​/SRE at Asymmetric Security

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Founding Engineer (Full Stack / SRE)

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Asymmetric Security is a well-funded, early-stage AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response startup building automated investigation platforms designed to accelerate cyberdefense for the AGI era.

Join Asymmetric Security as a Founding Engineer to scale a production platform automating cyberattack investigations. You'll work across the stack—from FastAPI backends and React frontends to GCP infrastructure—ensuring the system is resilient and performant. You'll build agentic AI systems and evaluations that measure defense capabilities against real-world security incidents.

London, UK

• Work at the cutting edge of AI and cybersecurity, building agentic systems that automate complex digital forensics and incident response tasks for frontier AI labs.
• High-impact founding role at a well-funded startup where you will shape architectural decisions and set engineering standards for a production-ready SaaS platform.
• Solve technically challenging problems involving data-intensive workloads, real-time collaboration, and the development of evaluations to measure AI performance against real cyber incidents.

• Build and operate a multi-tenant SaaS platform on GCP, using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and React to deliver real-time security collaboration and investigation tools.
• Develop and deploy agentic AI systems and evaluation frameworks to measure and improve AI performance against real-world cyber incidents and security challenges.
• Own platform reliability and observability end‑to‑end, including CI/CD pipelines, SLO design, and incident response practices to maintain high production availability.

• Strong background in Python (FastAPI/async) and modern frontend (React/Type Script), with experience shipping and operating production-grade, data-intensive software.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), containerization (Docker/Terraform), and managing distributed data workloads using tools like Parquet, DuckDB, or Redis.
• Proven ability to manage production‑scale systems, with a deep understanding of observability, monitoring, and building for long-term reliability under the pressure of real‑world incidents.