Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We Are Praetorian</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Praetorian is defined by raw intensity, fearless candor, and a relentless drive. This is who we are.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are looking for high-performing, mission-aligned individuals. We prioritize performance over politics and purpose over transaction. This environment is built for those who seek ownership and impact.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Is Praetorian the right fit for you? If you are someone who obsesses over the problem, defaults to open communication, and wants to work with a team that refuses to accept mediocrity—then you have found your home.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Mission</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Praetorian is an expert-driven offensive security company. Our mission is to prevent breaches before they occur. We help organizations shift from an "assume breach" mentality to adopting offensive security as a core strategy of prevention.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We don’t just find bugs; we solve the root cause. We are building a future without compromise, and we need people who run toward the fire.</span></p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qmkRBVKeIiQ?si=GExhg85rIJD7H9DI" width="560" height="314"></iframe><br><br></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><div class="c-message_kit__gutter"> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter__right" data-qa="message_content"> <div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who We Are Looking For</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are looking for a <strong>Software Engineer</strong> who operates with clear ownership. You’re not just filling a seat. You’re setting the standard. You believe great execution brings strategy to life.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>How You Operate</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You bring <strong>mission-driven grit</strong> to every challenge, running toward hard problems rather than away from them. You prioritize customer outcomes over internal processes. You choose <strong>truth and clarity</strong> over performative politeness. We look for builders with a <strong>bias for action</strong> – people who own the fix when things break, share credit with the team, and possess the <strong>intellectual humility</strong> to care more about getting to the right answer than being right.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What You Will Own</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Own the Outcome:</strong> Build and ship features across the full stack of the Praetorian Guard platform, from the Go serverless backend to a React frontend used by security teams daily. You own it from design through production operations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Take Accountability:</strong> Owning the outcome means taking accountability to overcome the challenges in developing and operating the Praetorian Guard platform.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Raise the Bar:</strong> Write code that is clear, tested, and built to last. Push the team's engineering standards forward through code review, technical proposals, and leading by example.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Drive Impact:</strong> Work directly with offensive security engineers to translate real-world vulnerability findings into platform capabilities. Your code doesn't just run, it scales the impact of every security engineer on the team.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Scale the Platform:</strong> Design systems that handle the complexity of attack surface management at scale: graph databases modeling millions of asset relationships, queue-based architectures processing continuous security scans, and real-time interfaces that make complex data actionable.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What You Bring</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Foundation:</strong> A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, backed by <strong>0–5 years of experience</strong> in cybersecurity, startups, or tech companies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Backend Fluency:</strong> You write Go that is idiomatic, testable, and production-ready. You understand serverless architectures, API design, and working with databases under real load.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Systems Thinking:</strong> You reason about distributed systems, concurrency, failure modes, and data flow. You don't just write the function—you think about what happens when it's called ten thousand times a second.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Frontend Ability:</strong> You apply software engineering principles to guide AI agents to build responsive, performant UI in maintainable code. You care deeply about the final user experience and do not stop iterating until it is right.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Builder's Instinct:</strong> You have side projects, open-source contributions, or technical writing that shows you build because you want to, not because someone told you to. You've shipped something real outside of a classroom.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>If This Position Is Wildly Successful, In One Year You Will Have:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shipped major features across the Guard platform that security teams rely on daily</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Built infrastructure that scales, such as queue-based scanning pipelines, graph query optimization, and AWS serverless architecture.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Written code that your teammates trust: clean and well-tested. Your pull requests raise the bar and your reviews make the people around you sharper</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Integrated AI tooling into your development workflow, moving fast in complex systems without sacrificing quality or understanding</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Honed your product skills by turning high-level requests into practical features that real customers rely on and generate delights.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated ownership across the full stack, from CloudFormation templates and Lambda handlers to React components and Playwright tests, not because you were told to, but because the problem demanded it</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Closed the gap between field findings and platform capabilities by partnering with offensive security engineers to translate recurring vulnerability patterns into automated detections that multiply the team's impact</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Contributed to Praetorian's engineering culture through technical blog posts, internal knowledge sharing, or open-source contributions that reflect the depth of what we're building</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mentored junior engineers and contributed to a culture of continuous learning, raising the technical floor across the team through your example and your investment in the people around you</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Why Praetorian?</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We offer a culture built on high performance and deep ownership.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Elite Talent:</strong> Work alongside the top 1% of the industry—composed exclusively of high performers who raise the bar.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Our DNA:</strong> We are defined by action, grit, and uncompromising transparency. We move fast, take on hard problems, and choose clarity over comfort—because that’s how meaningful work gets done.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-size: 10pt;">Impact:</strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Your work directly protects the world's most critical organizations.</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Want to go deeper? Explore our<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.praetorian.com/new-hire-survival-guide"> New Hire Survival Guide</a> to dive into Praetorian's mission, vision, values, and culture.</strong></span></p></div>