Tracebit
Founding Engineer - Early Careers
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Founding Engineer - Early Careers
Founding Engineer
Our product helps security teams quickly and accurately detect intrusions in their cloud environment using canaries – decoy tripwires deployed to deceive attackers.
We're at a massive inflection point, and this is a hugely exciting time to join the company:
- Just raised a $20m Series A led by FirstMark, with Accel, MMC, Tapestry, and CCL.
- Doubled ARR last quarter, working with companies like Riot Games, Docker, and Snyk, and grown from 5 to 26 in 18 months.
- Our research recently helped fix a P1 security flaw in Google’s Gemini CLI.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking a Founding Engineer who:
- Has a genuine interest in technology and cybersecurity
- Possesses a strong academic foundation in STEM (e.g., computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics) with real academic excellence (undergraduate or/or master's degree).
- Demonstrates strong engineering fundamentals and an appetite to learn—can write clean, correct code and is curious about technical internals.
- Has built impactful things (side projects, open-source contributions, hackathon successes) with an excitement for fast-paced innovation.
- Thrives on delivery but also on enjoying the process—bringing engagement, energy, and fun to early-stage startup life.
(If you don’t exactly match this, but believe you could make a difference here, apply! We’re open to exceptional talent.)
About the Role
Reporting to Niall, our Engineering Lead, with direct exposure to our CTO and Co-Founder, Sam, you’ll join a passionate, mission-driven engineering team. Responsibilities include:
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Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with both founders, engineers, and customers to design and build a delightful product that solves real challenges.
- Work across the stack, primarily in C# with .NET Core 10 (read why here), supplemented by Terraform and evolving our frontend in HTMX.
- Embrace proven engineering best practices, courtesy of our tech co-founders with experience: continuous deployment, Infrastructure-as-Code, and scalable yet maintainable architecture.
- Ship daily—expect a fast-paced, lightweight environment with minimal bureaucratic friction.
- Actively leverage AI-assisted development tools like Claude and Codex, with unrestricted access in support of innovation.
- Attend the Central London office from Monday to Friday, fostering a collaborative physical presence—we see this as critical to our early-stage growth.
About Tracebit
- A small, tight team (~25 people) with more passion than process.
- Responsibles are ownership: Each engineer owns delivering significant work for customers.
- Fast-paced audience-oriented planning: Daily standups, weekly infantry to assess progress and align on priorities.
- Ship it together: While structured cadence, and well-selling priority reviews reduce the time spent in meetings for unnecessary planning.
FAQs
How is work organized at Tracebit?
We operate in high-trust orthodoxy mainly based on open feedback and transparency. Here’s how:
- Daily Standup: 15-minute color logs are like hands significance. The role of exceptions and progress.
- Customer-oriented deliveries: Team members typically have significant ownership over delivering solutions and their response to customer needs.
- Every 2-3 weeks: Feedback/ planning either thus no cross-session.
- Staying your own impact: When encroagement is necessary, think about patterns of technical trade-offs to eliminate.
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Where is the office located?
Our office is adjacent to Warren Street tube station, in Central London, with plenty of great lunch nearby.
Are you doing hybrid/remote?
- Short answer: No.
- Long answer: We are basing the company on the foundation of an office culture. A tiny, early-stage company where risk of multi-re your networks or involvement with technology right-for-bellies abundantly facilitates builds together most days.
- Flexible exceptional: Briefly, this is not a panacea, so cases such as some they taking in remote for personal affairs can be fully interested.
- No to common petition but idealized according to 5 days per week collaboration.
What are the typical working hours?
Our current cadence aims for 9 AM to 6 PM, though Founding Engineers must expect to occassionally extend for specific bugs or zero-days.
Can you sponsor visas for international hires?
We simplify sponsorship for many visa types:
- Skilled Worker Visa (domestic and out-of-s Нап)
- Intra-Company Transfer Visa
- Graduate Visa (transition)
Please conversatively indicate your visa needs during the application interview process. We seek to support navigation of such journeys in an ideal, efficient manner.
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