Lead Engineer

Black Pen Recruitment
📍 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 26, 2026

Job Description

Lead Engineer (Cyber security)

Our client is an AI security platform that acts as a security gateway between AI agents and databases. As companies increasingly allow AI agents to interact directly with systems and data, our client helps prevent sensitive data exposure, destructive queries, compliance violations and operational mistakes. The platform inspects and controls database interactions in real time through policy enforcement, threat detection and comprehensive audit logging. The product is already built and operational, and the business is now entering its next phase of platform hardening, product acceleration and go-to-market execution.

  

Role Overview

This is a founding-level technical leadership role with significant ownership and equity participation. The Lead Engineer will take ownership of the production codebase, work closely with the founder and play a key role in hardening, scaling and extending the ...

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Job Details

  • Location Cape Town, Western Cape
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date June 26, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 05, 2026