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watchTowr

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤝 B2B

💰 $19M Series A - watchTowr on 2024-10

Cybersecurity • B2B

watchTowr is a high-growth cybersecurity company that builds solutions and services to help protect large enterprises. The company presents itself as enterprise-focused and hires globally (Singapore, UK, US), offering employee benefits like private health insurance and an ESOP. Its careers and privacy/cookie notices indicate an emphasis on security, compliance, and enterprise-grade protection for customers.

📋 Description

• Architect, scale, and optimise our distributed scanning infrastructure, ensuring high throughput, low latency, and reliable operation at global scale. • Advance DevOps performance and delivery excellence, continuously improving: Deployment frequency, Change lead time, Change failure rate, Mean time to recovery. • Solve complex scaling challenges across compute, data pipelines, networking, and orchestration, including: Evolving from single-region to multi-region/global architecture, Increasing data processing throughput across workflow pipelines, Improving overall system availability, observability, and fault tolerance. • Collaborate closely with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities meet evolving business and customer needs. • Champion engineering best practices, including infrastructure-as-code, automation-by-default, high-quality operational documentation, and secure-by-design principles. • Drive continuous improvement, helping shape a culture of operational maturity, reliability, and engineering excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems and high-throughput networked architectures. • Experience with cybersecurity platforms or security data at scale (ideally Threat Intelligence and/or Offensive Security-type solutions). • Proven experience building engineering organisations in early-stage, B2B startups serving enterprise clients. • Demonstrated track record scaling high-throughput and distributed systems in production. • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure setup, operations, and maintenance. • Experience working with cross-functional teams delivering software using Agile methodologies. • Strong understanding of OSI Layer 3+ networking concepts and performance optimisation. • Experience owning, operating, and upgrading systems running in production. • Direct experience scaling a platform from a single region to a multi-region or global deployment. • Exposure to cybersecurity platforms, high-volume data processing, or other distributed compute environments. • Technical proficiency across: • - Cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GitHub • - Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Terraform • - Application platform: Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Helm, Docker, Docker Compose • - Observability: Elastic-Fluent-Kibana (EFK) stack, Prometheus, Jaegar/OpenTelemetry, Grafana • - Persistence: PostgreSQL (RDS), MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka • - Delivery pipelines: GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild • - Workflow orchestration: Airflow, Kubernetes • - Software runtimes: Python, Node.js, Go • Familiarity with navigating regulatory, privacy, and data sovereignty requirements in SG, the US, UK, and EU.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation - we believe that hard work, skills and ambition should be fairly compensated. • Meaningful role in a company - You will be a key and early contributor to a fast-growing cybersecurity business that helps protect some of the world's largest enterprises. • The best tools and powerful kit - we enable you with the tools to effectively fulfil your role. • Endless opportunities – we are in a high-growth phase of our journey, and plan to promote from within as we scale. • Work with cyber security experts – we are solving cutting-edge industry-wide cyber security challenges with some of the world’s most advanced organisations.