Software Engineer, Rapid Response Assignment - UK

🏢 Vulncheck · 📍 Cheltenham, UK · 💼 remote

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Software Engineer, Rapid Response Assignment - (UK)

Location: Cheltenham, UK (Remote)
Team: Product & Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time

About VulnCheck
Exploitation prevention is only as strong as the intelligence driving those efforts, and most of the industry is still running on intelligence that lacks exploit context. VulnCheck, The Exploit Intelligence Company, delivers structured exploit intelligence on what is actively weaponized in the wild, purpose-built for the data lakes, ETL pipelines, automation, and AI and LLM workflows your infrastructure already runs on, raising the capability of everything it powers.

About the Role
We're looking for a Software Engineer, Rapid Response Assignment who combines strong engineering skills with a deep commitment to customer outcomes. In this hands-on role, you'll make sure our customers stay unblocked and that the issues they raise are resolved quickly, accurately, and for good.

You'll diagnose and fix complex problems across our platform, deliver improvements that directly address customer needs, and work closely with our Customer Success team to turn technical challenges into great outcomes. As part of a global engineering team providing continuous coverage, you'll bring engineering rigor to the work that customers feel most directly. This is a 100% remote role, but we're primarily looking for candidates based in Cheltenham, UK.

What You'll Do

Resolve customer-reported issues quickly and thoroughly, from investigation through to a durable fix
Diagnose complex, ambiguous problems across our services and data pipelines, tracing them to root cause
Deliver high-quality engineering work that improves the platform and directly addresses customer needs
Partner closely with Customer Success to align on technical solutions and outcomes
Maintain and improve backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines
Write high-quality, maintainable code and uphold engineering best practices
Improve system reliability, performance, and observability across the platform
Participate in incident response and on-call rotations

What You'll Bring

5+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems as a software engineer

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Vulncheck Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assesses elite offensive security research capability, rapid vulnerability triage speed, and deep threat intelligence intuition.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Academic or theoretical security perspective with no real-world incident or exploit analysis experience
2. Slow methodical pacing; failing to grasp the velocity required in modern threat intelligence
3. Inability to clearly articulate complex vulnerability vectors to engineering and executive stakeholders

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I track, analyze, and operationalize emerging threat data faster than adversaries can weaponize it.

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