Drive identification and analysis of security vulnerabilities across operating system and platform components, including design review, code review, fuzzing, and variant analysis Develop and influence mitigations and protections that reduce risk across platforms, improving resilience against entire classes of vulnerabilities Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security into the development lifecycle, influencing design decisions and improving secure engineering practices Contribute to the development and scaling of security tooling, detection capabilities, or analysis techniques that enable broader coverage and earlier detection of vulnerabilities Partner across organisations to translate security findings into systemic improvements and measurable security outcomes Provide technical leadership within and across teams, contributing to direction setting, problem decomposition, and delivery of complex security initiatives Significant experience in security-related elements of software engineering or in another security-related field. Hands on experience with systems level programming languages such as C, C++, or Rust. Public or internal track record of relevant security research Understanding of operating system security fundamentals, including kernel or low level platform components Experience performing vulnerability research, including code review, fuzzing, reverse engineering, or exploit development Experience developing or applying mitigations, such as memory safety protections, sandboxing, or platform hardening techniques
Principal Software Engineer
Salary
$74,700 - $122,600
Location
Cambridge, UK
Total raised
$142.0M
Last stage
Series E
Investors
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