Senior Engineer Ii Ai Security - Platform Engineering jobs at Forter in United Kingdom, London

We're looking for awith strong development skills and hands-on

• Direct impact : Your work will affect reliability and developer experience across the entire company
• Modern tech stack : Work with AWS, EKS, and cutting-edge observability tools (Mimir, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki, OTel)
• Collaborative culture : We believe in pair programming, knowledge sharing, and learning together
• Growth mindset : We support continuous learning and provide space for you to develop new skills
• Sustainable : We value long-term, scalable solutions rather than quick fixes
• Global team : Work with engineers across London, Israel, and North America
• Inclusive environment : We value diverse perspectives and encourage open feedback

• Collaborate on designing, building, and maintaining Forter's kubernetes platform and our observability, monitoring, and alerting systems supporting 20+ engineering teams
• Complete our migration from EC2 VMs to kubernetes
• Complete our migration from ELK stack to our new scalable platform (Mimir, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki, Quickwit)
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve their observability practices, SLOs, and kubernetes platform adoption
• Create intuitive developer tools that reduce MTTR and make troubleshooting easier
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing and leading by example
• Collaborate through pairing and sharing sessions to ensure team alignment
• Balance short-term goals with long-term, sustainable infrastructure improvements

• Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Honeycomb, Loki, or similar)
• Development background using modern languages (Python, Java or JavaScript etc.)
• Comfortable with collaborative practices (pair programming, code reviews)
• Self-driven with passion for building high-quality, sustainable software
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Growth mindset that embraces challenges as learning opportunities

• Have experience with SRE principles and Observability-Driven Development (ODD)
• Know how to design and scale monitoring infrastructure for distributed systems
• Are familiar with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
• Have experience with cost optimisation for observability tools
• Understand microservices architectures and monitoring complex, interdependent services
• Have contributed to open-source observability or monitoring projects

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, )
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and )
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and )
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( )
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

You will represent the Security Team as a point of contact and source of knowledge, working with management, InfoSec and Legal teams, and across the R&D department.

• Own and innovate the security strategy for Forter’s use of Generative AI, ensuring high development velocity while handling rapidly evolving threats.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security best practices early, balancing protection with development velocity.
• Perform risk assessments and negotiate with other teams on where to invest effort.
• Design, build, promote, and maintain security infrastructure and tools used by all of Forter's engineering teams.
• Mentor and build relationships with “Security Champions” in Engineering to design and build secure applications

• 5-6+ years of experience in the relevant fields:
• 3+ years experience in a security-focused role
• 3+ years working with production systems in public cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure / Kubernetes) OR
• 3+ years experience with programming and infrastructure-as-code (Python, NodeJS, Go, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Deep understanding of security across every layer of the tech stack (OS, Network, Application, Database, Storage, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to drive cross-team security initiatives

• Experience with security in the AI model lifecycle, LLMs and agentic AI
• Experience with threat modeling, security audits, penetration testing, or SAST tools
• Contributions to security research, blogs, talks, or open-source security projects

• Competitive salary
• Quarterly company bonus
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Restricted Stock Units (RSU’s)
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday
• Work from home allowance
• Pension plan with an option for salary sacrifice

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• in NYC (2022)
• #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

As a member of the data stores team, you will work alongside highly technical software engineers shaping the way Forter stores vast amounts of data. You will be entrusted with the designing, implementation, and delivery of data infrastructure solutions that are the right fit for the requirements. Your unique perspective and experience will bring innovative ideas to the team and help us deliver long term solutions.

• Lead and mentor engineers to ensure the seamless operation of our systems.
• Investigate and implement performance and cost optimizations for our cloud infrastructure.
• Create or introduce tooling and processes to support the operational aspects required for maintaining large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of our cloud infrastructure.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in cloud infrastructure, and implement new offerings as needed.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the availability and performance of our cloud infrastructure systems.

• 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure engineer or backend-oriented software engineer.
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure and database products.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with configuration management ( chef , ansible, terraform or cloud formation)
• Programming or Scripting experience (e.g: Bash, Python , Go)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of database principles, distributed systems, and database management.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday
• Home office stipend

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• in NYC (2022)
• #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

You will take ownership of designing, implementing, and delivering tools, processes, and initiatives that enhance data engineering practices. Your unique perspective and expertise will contribute innovative ideas, helping the team develop sustainable, long-term data management solutions.

A successful software engineer excels at understanding user needs through discovery work and engaging with stakeholders to secure buy-in and drive adoption of the tools and processes they design and implement.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient data infrastrucure solutions.
• Lead projects that require coordination across engineering, product teams, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Act as a liaison across multiple teams to drive alignment on data engineering initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption and integration of solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the availability and performance of our systems.

Technical Expertise:

• At lease 5 years of engineering experience
• Experience in managing large data infrastructure
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python or Java/Kotlin.
• Proven experience with distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Strong knowledge of data systems, including relational and non-relational data stores.
• Experience with big data tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink or Snowflake).

Nice to have:

• Experience building or implementing data products, schema management, data contracts, data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR)
• Experience leading projects, requirements gathering and product management.

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, )
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and )
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and )
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( )
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate on Observability Systems : Help design, build, and maintain Forter’s observability, monitoring, and alerting systems, ensuring they meet the needs of over 150 engineers across 20+ teams. They are integral to maintaining high availability (five-nines SLA) and improving our Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
• Work alongside another senior engineer to help us complete our migration from our existing ELK stack to our new, more scalable platform that helps engineers easily track and resolve issues, driving faster recovery times and reducing friction. They include Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana , Honeycomb , Loki and Quickwit .
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to level up their observability, and make the most of the platform we offer with a long-term, sustainable focus.
• Help create a culture of continuous learning both inside and outside the team by leading by example, sharing knowledge, and contributing to team-wide discussions on improving processes and technology.

What you'll need:

• 4+ years of experience in the relevant filed
• You are self-driven , with a passion for building high-quality, sustainable software and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment in a sustainable manner.
• You’re an effective communicator , able to explain complex technical issues and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in person and remotely.
• You’re always looking for ways to improve processes and optimise systems, and you understand the balance between short-term goals and long-term impact.
• You have a growth mindset , embracing challenges as opportunities to learn and develop, both personally and as part of the team.
• Collaboration & Pair Programming : Comfortable working in a collaborative environment, especially with pair programming or code reviews, to share knowledge and ensure the team is aligned.
• Experience with Observability Tools : Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as Prometheus , Mimir , Grafana , ELK , Honeycomb , Loki , Quickwit or similar.
• Development Background : Experience building and monitoring systems using modern programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby ).
• Cloud Infrastructure & Orchestration : Extensive experience working with AWS , Terraform , Kubernetes , or other cloud platforms and container orchestration tools.

It would be cool if you have:

• Experience with Observability-Driven Development (ODD).
• Experience designing and scaling monitoring and alerting infrastructure for distributed systems, ideally in Kubernetes and AWS.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with cost optimisation strategies for observability tools and infrastructure.
• Knowledge of microservices architectures and how to monitor complex, interdependent services.
• Experience with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) principles and practices.
• Contributions to open-source projects in observability, monitoring, or related areas.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate on Observability Systems : Help design, build, and maintain Forter’s observability, monitoring, and alerting systems, ensuring they meet the needs of over 150 engineers across 20+ teams. They are integral to maintaining high availability (five-nines SLA) and improving our Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
• Work alongside another senior engineer to help us complete our migration from our existing ELK stack to our new, more scalable platform that helps engineers easily track and resolve issues, driving faster recovery times and reducing friction. They include Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana , Honeycomb , Loki and Quickwit .
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to level up their observability, and make the most of the platform we offer with a long-term, sustainable focus.
• Help create a culture of continuous learning both inside and outside the team by leading by example, sharing knowledge, and contributing to team-wide discussions on improving processes and technology.

What you'll need:

• 4+ years of experience in the relevant filed
• You are self-driven , with a passion for building high-quality, sustainable software and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment in a sustainable manner.
• You’re an effective communicator , able to explain complex technical issues and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in person and remotely.
• You’re always looking for ways to improve processes and optimise systems, and you understand the balance between short-term goals and long-term impact.
• You have a growth mindset , embracing challenges as opportunities to learn and develop, both personally and as part of the team.
• Collaboration & Pair Programming : Comfortable working in a collaborative environment, especially with pair programming or code reviews, to share knowledge and ensure the team is aligned.
• Experience with Observability Tools : Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as Prometheus , Mimir , Grafana , ELK , Honeycomb , Loki , Quickwit or similar.
• Development Background : Experience building and monitoring systems using modern programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby ).
• Cloud Infrastructure & Orchestration : Extensive experience working with AWS , Terraform , Kubernetes , or other cloud platforms and container orchestration tools.

It would be cool if you have:

• Experience with Observability-Driven Development (ODD).
• Experience designing and scaling monitoring and alerting infrastructure for distributed systems, ideally in Kubernetes and AWS.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with cost optimisation strategies for observability tools and infrastructure.
• Knowledge of microservices architectures and how to monitor complex, interdependent services.
• Experience with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) principles and practices.
• Contributions to open-source projects in observability, monitoring, or related areas.

You will take ownership of designing, implementing, and delivering tools, processes, and initiatives that enhance data engineering practices. Your unique perspective and expertise will contribute innovative ideas, helping the team develop sustainable, long-term data management solutions.

A successful software engineer excels at understanding user needs through discovery work and engaging with stakeholders to secure buy-in and drive adoption of the tools and processes they design and implement.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient data infrastrucure solutions.
• Lead projects that require coordination across engineering, product teams, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Act as a liaison across multiple teams to drive alignment on data engineering initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption and integration of solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the availability and performance of our systems.

Technical Expertise:

• At lease 5 years of engineering experience
• Experience in managing large data infrastructure
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python or Java/Kotlin.
• Proven experience with distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Strong knowledge of data systems, including relational and non-relational data stores.
• Experience with big data tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink or Snowflake).

Nice to have:

• Experience building or implementing data products, schema management, data contracts, data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR)
• Experience leading projects, requirements gathering and product management.

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, )
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and )
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and )
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( )
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)