ASE_Platform_Engineer
🚨 We’re Hiring: Senior Platform Engineer (Prototype)
📍 Remote / Flexible
⏳ 3-Month Contract (Part-Time Negotiable)
🏢 The Hacking Games
Most security data platforms make the same trade-off:
Normalise early. Lose fidelity. Query fast.
We’re building something that refuses that trade-off.
The architecture is defined. We need a senior engineer to build it, someone who understands why the trade-offs most platforms accept are actually the source of their limitations.
You’ll work at the intersection of:
* Systems programming
* Data engineering
* Security telemetry
* Behavioural analysis
AI-assisted development (Claude Code) is mandatory and central to the workflow. This is build-to-learn engineering, producing a defensible, investor-ready demonstrator.
🔧 What You’ll Build (Prototype Scope):
* High-fidelity telemetry ingestion (host, network, identity, cloud
* Behavioural correlation using graph-based reasoning
* Scenario reproduction with structural integrity
* Derived intelligence and an interactive end-to-end demonstrator
The challenges here are architectural — not things open-source tools solve cleanly.
Ideal Profile
You are a senior / principal IC who:
* Understands Linux internals (namespaces, cgroups, eBPF, kernel boundary
* Can read a PCAP and reconstruct application-layer behaviour
* Has built streaming data pipelines with ordering guarantees
* Has worked with high-cardinality columnar analytics (ClickHouse, DuckDB)
* Understands graph modelling (Neo4j, Cypher, Gremlin)
* Knows container isolation primitives beyond surface Docker usage
* Codes in Python or Go (C / Rust a plus)
Highly valued:
* Offensive security background
* Deep experience with EDR/SIEM structural limitations
* MITRE ATT&CK at technique level
* Infrastructure-as-code for reproducible labs
* LLM-assisted development as a core habit
💡 How We Work
* AI-assisted development is mandatory
* Engineers push back with evidence
* Direct access to founders
* No bureaucracy
* High IP sensitivity (full architecture shared under NDA at interview)
🎯 What We Care About
We are not looking for a polished CV.
We are looking for evidence that you understand the problem space.
* When applying, send 2–3 paragraphs describing:
* Where you worked with high-fidelity security telemetry
* What frustrated you about it
* What you would have done differently
That tells us more than a CV. .
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