Principal Cybersecurity Software Engineer

Overview

As a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer you will advance data-driven security capabilities at scale, blending deep cyber expertise with hands-on software engineering. You will tackle complex challenges in threat detection, anomaly identification, automation, and advanced analytics, turning security telemetry into practical protection. In this senior IC role, you’ll influence engineering direction, lead technical workshops, and raise standards across teams while solving cutting-edge problems. This position offers leadership impact, scale, and a clear opportunity to shape security at a major financial services organisation.

Pay / Benefits

• Base salary up to 280,000
• bens
• bonus
• visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Tackle security challenges across threat detection, anomaly identification, cyber automation and advanced analytics
• Turn vast telemetry into practical protection and actionable insights
• Lead technical workshops and influence engineering direction across teams
• Operate at scale as a senior IC, mentoring others and setting standards
• Spend ~40–50% of time coding and contributing hands-on software engineering work
• Shape and drive data-driven security capabilities for large-scale systems

Key requirements

• Deep cyber expertise with elite hands-on software engineering ability
• 40–50% coding time commitment
• Senior IC/Director-grade experience
• Experience in security product vendors, cyber start-ups, red team/offensive security, or large-scale engineering environments where security, data and software intersect
• Ability to operate and influence at scale in a global organisation
• Visa sponsorship is available

• leadership
• influence engineering direction
• workshops facilitation
• cybersecurity
• threat detection
• anomaly identification

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