ASE Platform Engineer at The Hacking Games, Remote, 3 Months, £Contract Rate

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🚨 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. .

📩 hr@thg-v.com

🌐 thehackinggames.com