Cyber Engineering Lead

Xact Placements Limited
London, United Kingdom
Last month
£90,000 – £100,000 pa
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Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Lead
Posted
1 May 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

Benefits

Engineering Lead (Cyber) | High-Growth Cybersecurity Scale-Up | Fully Remote (UK)

  • Remote – UK Based
  • Up to £100,000 + benefits
  • Permanent – Full time

Are you a player-coach who loves diving into hard offensive security problems and equally loves building great teams around you?

Lead the Cyber Engineering squad of a research-driven, venture-backed cybersecurity scale-up trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and critical infrastructure providers. Recognised by Gartner, $29M funded, and scaling fast worldwide.

AsEngineering Lead (Cyber) you’ll architect and scale the offensive security infrastructure behind the platform while leading and growing engineers across the world

What you’ll be doing:

  • Leading and mentoring the Cyber Engineering team
  • Defining the future direction of the cyber engineering function
  • Architecting theoffensive security infrastructure that processes huge volumes of data and identifies enterprise-scale vulnerabilities in real time
  • Driving R&D that pushes offensive security forward, replicating adversary tactics at scale

What they’re looking for:

  • 5+ years as ahands-on engineering leader – player-coach mindset
  • Track record managing engineers andscaling teams globally
  • Background in anearly-stage B2B startup focused on enterprise clients
  • Experience building and deployingoffensive security solutions with deep understanding of adversary TTPs
  • Architecting and scalingcloud-based systems for intensive data processing
  • Strong code inPython and Go, atinternet-wide scale

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