Head of Engineering (m/f/d) — Own delivery and grow the team | Berlin at Cygrid GmbHCygrid GmbH · Berlin

Posted: 2026-10-22

Skills: Go, SQL, AWS, DockerBerlin • Cybersecurity & AI Startup • Recently FundedA newly funded cybersecurity startup in Berlin is looking for a Head of Engineering to join as a team member and help design the core security, identity, and enforcement foundations of a next-generation AI-powered security risk management platform.We are an early-stage startup founded by experienced cybersecurity leaders with backgrounds in Israeli Intelligence units. We are looking for a hands-on Head of Engineering. If you are passionate about cybersecurity and AI tech, thrive in fast-paced startup environments, and enjoy building complex platforms from the ground up, this is an opportunity to make a real impact.We’re building a next-generation cyber enforcement platform that helps enterprises understand, measure, and reduce identity risk at scale. Our goal is to turn complex identity and security data into clear, actionable risk insights that CISOs and CTOs can trust. You will work from scratch on core platform components from day one, shaping how modern enterprises manage and reason about risk using cloud-native systems and AI-driven analysis and automated enforcement through AI Agents.Key ResponsibilitiesOwn delivery. You decide what ships and when, and the roadmap moves at the speed you set Own architecture. Design the systems, make the build-vs-buy calls, set the standards everyone builds against Build the engineering culture from the ground up. Planning, code review, on-call, incident response. Whatever process exists is the process you wrote Grow the five engineers you inherit into the team that scales with us Hire as we grow, and own the bar Shape what we build next, alongside product and the founders Ship fast while we’re SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified. Security engineering isn’t a side quest here, it’s the productMust have10+ years of professional software engineering experience 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams directly 3+ years of GoLang exper …truncated… and comfort operating under amb…Sign in to see the original postingBrowse more developer jobs on RoleBurst