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Engineering Team Lead, Cloud Security
At a glance
- Lead a small, senior engineering team inside a fast-scaling cloud security business
- Tech stack: Java, Go and AWS at genuine scale, processing security telemetry in real time
- Location: Hybrid working, Belfast
- Salary: £100,000 to £120,000 plus equity
- Role: A lead role that keeps you in the code rather than in a calendar
About the company
A high-growth cloud security company whose platform protects cloud infrastructure as it runs, correlating what is actually happening at runtime with what the configuration says should be happening. It is backed by tier-one investors, growing quickly across Europe and the US, and building out a senior engineering presence in Belfast. The engineering culture is deliberately small-team and high-trust, with short paths from idea to production.
The role
You will lead a team of five to eight engineers building the services that ingest, process and act on security telemetry at very high volume. This is a working lead role... roughly half your week is spent in Java and Go, the rest on direction, delivery and growing the people around you. You will work closely with product, security research and platform engineering, and you will be trusted to make architectural calls without waiting for consensus. It suits an engineer who has already led, misses the code, and wants to do both properly rather than choosing between them.
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Key responsibilities
- Lead a team of five to eight engineers, owning delivery, quality and technical direction
- Stay hands-on in Java and Go, contributing to production services rather than reviewing from a distance
- Design high-throughput, event-driven systems on AWS that process security telemetry in near real time
- Make and defend architectural decisions across ingestion, detection and data pipelines
- Set the engineering standards for testing, code review, observability and on-call
- Partner with product and security research to turn detection requirements into shippable capability
- Grow the team through hiring, onboarding and structured mentoring
- Balance the pace a scaling business demands against the reliability a security platform requires
- Represent the team's work to engineering leadership and, where needed, to customers
What you'll need
Essential
- 8+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years leading or formally mentoring a team
- Strong commercial Java, and either production Go experience or a demonstrable appetite to work in it daily
- Deep AWS experience across containers, networking and identity, ideally with EKS
- Proven track record building distributed, event-driven or streaming systems at scale
- Comfort owning architecture and making trade-off decisions under commercial pressure
- Track record of growing engineers, not just directing them
- Right to work in the UK
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Desirable
- Background in cyber security, particularly cloud security, runtime protection, CNAPP or CSPM
- Kubernetes at scale, or exposure to eBPF and low-level observability
- Experience inside a venture-backed business through a period of rapid scaling
Why apply
- £100,000 to £120,000, plus equity in a fast-growing business
- Hybrid working from Belfast, with real flexibility around how the week is structured
- A leadership role that does not cost you your technical credibility
- Modern stack with no legacy to carry: Java, Go, AWS, Kubernetes
- Security problems where the work has visible consequence rather than abstract value
- Short decision paths and direct access to engineering leadership
- Clear route towards Engineering Manager or Principal, depending on which way you want to go
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