Cyber Security Jobs in Cambridge

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Director · manages people

Lead the strategy, roadmap and execution of Darktrace's interactive demo estate, shaping how products are showcased to prospects, customers and internal teams. Manage a small team of technical content specialists while partnering with Product, Marketing, Enablement and Sales Engineering to evolve demos from on-rails walkthroughs into live sandbox environments.

Reprise · Storylane · Navattic

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Works within Cambridge R&D teams on high-impact projects spanning rapid prototyping and structured platform development, providing expert technical direction and mentoring engineers across languages such as Python, JavaScript, Rust and C++. The role advances a unique methodology for defending against unknown cyber-attacks, using Docker, cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines, and involves engaging with executive leadership on technical strategy.

Docker · Git · Cloud Computing

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior
• Permanent

Leads the design and delivery of complex features in a cryptographic security product, working hands-on across embedded software, platform components, client tools and APIs. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers and supports system-level architecture decisions on availability, latency and data models. Hybrid role in Cambridge, three days onsite.

C · Python

• Cambridge
• Lead

Hands-on technical leadership role maintaining and evolving the Workday integration ecosystem across HR and Finance, reporting to the Digital Transformation Lead. You will design, build and support integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, web services and APIs, govern the Workday security model, and develop reporting and analytics, while balancing project delivery with operational support.

Workday · Workday Studio · Enterprise Interface Builder +7

• Cambridge

Join a global team developing and improving threat detection capabilities across key product areas. You'll respond to customer incidents, analyse cyber threat intelligence, and build detection schemes aligned to adversary techniques, collaborating with Development, Security Research and SOC teams.

Darktrace · GitLab

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Conducts independent and collaborative research into large language models, statistical methods and classical machine learning, prototyping ideas and implementing models into the wider software stack. Produces latency- and memory-optimised solutions for deployment on edge devices, working closely with software engineers and security analysts.

PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn +7

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Mid-level

Backend engineering role focused primarily on TypeScript, prototyping and building new features for AI-driven cybersecurity products. You'll work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and strategists, using Docker and cloud environments, with opportunities to specialise across languages like Python, Rust and C++. Hybrid, requiring at least two days a week in the Cambridge office.

Docker

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Mid-level

Partners with developers and product teams to embed quality from the start, designing and maintaining automated test frameworks across API, UI, integration and regression layers. Builds scalable suites into CI/CD pipelines, drives shift-left testing, and contributes to test strategy, code reviews and architecture discussions.

Cypress · Playwright · pytest +7

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Owns prototyping and development of new ideas to improve Darktrace's cybersecurity services, balancing creativity with time constraints. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and technical strategists on rapid prototyping and structured platform development, advancing methods for defending against unknown cyber-attacks. Requires production-quality Python coding, with Docker and containerisation experience and an interest in malware forensics.

Docker

• Cambridge

Acts as the go-to authority in a chosen reliability specialism—observability, performance engineering, data infrastructure, security-focused SRE or network reliability—defining standards and best practices across SRE, Platform Engineering and DevSecOps. Builds tooling and automation, leads deep-dive investigations into systemic issues, and contributes to incident response and on-call rotations in a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment.

AWS · GCP · Azure +1

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office

Explore and prototype machine learning solutions across domains, using language models, neural networks, statistical methods and classical ML, then implement models into the wider software stack. Work independently and with software engineers and security analysts, optimising models for latency and memory on edge devices. Hybrid role with two compulsory days a week in the Cambridge office.

PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn +2