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# Platform Engineer at Risk Ledger

- **Company:** Risk Ledger
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £90k–£110k
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/riskledger/jobs/4929654101

## Job description

## About us

Risk Ledger is developing a network of connected organisations, all working together to defend against cybersecurity attacks in the supply chain.

Organisations rely on us to establish trust, through sharing their security maturity and visualising the risks posed by their supply chain ecosystem. And we’re already trusted by customers like British Airways, BAE Systems and the NHS.

We are putting together an amazing and talented team from a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets to drive us towards our vision. Risk Ledger is built on the respect we have for one another and our users, united by our shared values and mission.

Every one of us is still learning: it’s how we grow as individuals. We’re curious. We’re ambitious. And we’re humble and honest. At Risk Ledger, we aim high to find the best solutions we can and always put our users first.

The team:

You'll join a cross-functional department of Software Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, all collaborating with the wider business to achieve impactful product outcomes. You'll be part of a small, growing Platform team, working closely with the wider engineering function.

We care deeply about building the right thing, in order to fundamentally shift mindsets in the cybersecurity industry. We ship quickly and continuously in order to learn and iterate, whilst always pushing for a high quality bar and keeping security and automation front and centre - the latter two being critical components of this role.

The core of our stack is Golang, Typescript (VueJS), PostgreSQL , AWS, Google Cloud and Grafana Cloud, with modern design philosophies and a cloud-native approach.

This role:

This role combines aspects of Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Developer Experience, and DevSecOps. Working alongside the wider team, you'll build and maintain the foundational systems, tools, and practices that enable our engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable software efficiently at pace. You'll be hands-on across the stack, contributing to the standards and consistency we hold across the engineering organisation, and you should expect to manage multiple priorities and operate at varying levels of detail.

You'll join a team that treats our platform as a product, putting the developer experience at the heart of everything you do. Your mission is to build a seamless, secure and reliable path from code to production, enabling our engineering teams to ship value quickly and safely. Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, technical leadership and the wider business on strategic initiatives that deliver real value to our customers.

In the role you will;

- Build and maintain scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure. Working across our products and supporting services, you'll develop and maintain our cloud services and infrastructure in AWS (primary) and GCP. You'll build and operate environments using Terraform and patterns like container orchestration on ECS/EKS , while helping to improve observability, reliability and performance.
- Accelerate product delivery through platform engineering. Contribute to the build of pipelines, tooling and internal platforms that enable fast, safe, automated that seeks to reduce friction across the delivery lifecycle.
- Improve developer experience with self-service tooling and standardisation. Help build the frameworks, tools, self-service platforms and golden paths that streamline workflows, eliminate toil, and promote consistent best practices, so software engineers can focus on high-value customer delivery.
- Support reliability and sacabibility through SRE principles and proactive operations. In partnership with product and engineering teams, you'll participate in incident response, help define and monitor SLI/SLO/SLAs, and work to optimise systems for availability, resilience, performance, and cost.
- Embed security across the engineering lifecycle. Help integrate shift-left security practices into CI/CD pipelines and product workflows so vulnerabilities are caught early and consistently. Support the management of secrets, credentials, and identity access controls, and help enforce compliance through automated policies.
- Contribute to a strong security posture. Working with our Information Security team, you'll help monitor, triage and respond to security events, and support a strong security posture through continuous vulnerability scanning, dependency management and threat modelling.
- Move fast, with an eye for quality. You enjoy moving fast while maintaining a high quality bar through testing, automation, discipline, consistency and best practice, whilst treading a careful line in pragmatism and cost-benefit analysis.
- Share knowledge and grow. You'll share what you know with colleagues, support more junior engineers, and actively grow your own technical and architectural skills with the team around you.
- Support our AI/ML platform tooling. From time to time you'll help maintain the infrastructure and supporting tooling behind our AI and ML capabilities (e.g. Vertex AI on GCP, AWS Bedrock, and LLM observability tooling such as Langfuse). This is a supporting part of the role rather than its focus.

You'll have;

- Experience working in engineering teams building a customer-focused SaaS product, weighing delivering value to clients against technical excellence.
- 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
- Good working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP), managed services and infrastructure automation tools (Terraform or similar).
- Proficiency in containerisation and orchestration (Containers, ECS, Kubernetes a plus).
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (such as Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python or Bash), with a background in software engineering being a major plus.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferable, ArgoCD etc).
- Experience with monitoring, alerting and logging stacks (the Grafana stack: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo; plus OpenTelemetry).
- A working understanding of networking and distributed systems.
- A working understanding of security and an interest in DevSecOps.
- An ability to work through ambiguity, and comfort tackling problems that aren't always well defined.
- A keen sense of curiosity, with a natural drive to learn and grow.
- A passion to work collaboratively with others. We like to work as a team, not a collection of individuals, and we expect you to have the same mindset.

You might have;

- Knowledge of policy-as-code.
- Familiarity with supply chain security.
- Exposure to cost optimisation and FinOps practices.
- Experience with internal developer platforms or portal tooling (e.g. Backstage, Get Port).
- Exposure to LLM observability or evaluation tooling (e.g. Langfuse).

Salary range £90,000—£110,000 GBP

## About Risk Ledger

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Risk Ledger provides a third-party risk management platform that connects organizations into a secure network to visualize and mitigate supply chain security risks in real-time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Haydn Brooks (CEO), Daniel Saul (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Computer and Network Security / Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – enterprises and organizations of all sizes that need to manage cybersecurity risk across their supply chain (security, procurement, and compliance teams)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To shift the way organizations approach cybersecurity and risk management by building a global network of connected organizations that can "Defend-as-One" against cyber attacks.

## Products & Services
- **Risk Ledger Platform**: A dynamic network-based SaaS platform that connects organizations with their suppliers. It replaces point-in-time questionnaires with a standardized, ever-green assessment. Suppliers complete a single profile that can be shared with multiple customers, drastically reducing administrative burden. The platform provides continuous risk signals, identifies concentration risks across 4th and 5th parties, and facilitates collective intelligence sharing.
- **Assessment Framework**: A standardized supplier security framework that is updated regularly against the latest cybersecurity directives and industry regulations, allowing for consistent benchmarking across the supply chain.
- **Reporting & Visualization**: Tools for mapping and visualizing the full supply chain, identifying chokepoints, and tracking risk mitigation progress.

## Market Standing
- **Funding**: Total of **$12.59M** raised over 5 rounds [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/risk-ledger). Key rounds include:
    - Pre-Seed: $1.8M (July 2019, led by Firstminute Capital)
    - Seed: $2.9M (Oct 2021, led by Lifeline Ventures)
    - Series A: £6.25M (~$7.7M) (Nov 2023, led by Mercia Ventures)
- **Key Metric**: **$3M** estimated annual revenue [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/risk-ledger).
- **Notable Investors & Partners**: Mercia Ventures, Lifeline Ventures, Firstminute Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: The platform now connects **over 16,000 organizations** [riskledger.com](https://riskledger.com/). Headcount has grown **30.4% year-over-year** to **81 employees**, with a presence in the UK, US, Japan, and Finland [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/risk-ledger). They are actively hiring for a founding US Sales role, signaling a major push into the North American market.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Collective Network Model**: Unlike traditional "point-in-time" questionnaire-based solutions, Risk Ledger creates a living network. Once a supplier is on the platform, any company in their network can instantly view their security profile, creating a powerful "use many" model that drastically reduces friction for both buyers and suppliers.
- **Deeper Visibility**: The network model provides visibility beyond direct third-parties, uncovering risks at the 4th and 5th party level which are typically blind spots for other tools.
- **Real-time Risk Signals**: Instead of relying on static annual assessments, the platform continuously monitors for emerging threats and alerts users if a connected supplier is impacted, creating a proactive rather than reactive security posture.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Network**: The primary focus is on increasing the number of organizations on the platform to strengthen the network effect—the more organizations join, the more valuable the platform becomes for everyone.
- **US Market Expansion**: With the hiring of a **Founding U.S. Sales Team** member and 7% of the workforce already based there, entering and capturing the North American market is a key growth priority.
- **Product Development**: They are actively hiring for a **Staff Engineer** and **Senior Product Engineer**, indicating a strong focus on building out the platform’s capabilities.
- **Community Building**: With roles like a **Community & Field Marketing Lead**, there is a clear strategy to build a community of security professionals around the "Defend-as-One" ethos.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company has a highly-rated culture (**4.9/5.0** on LinkedIn) based on transparency, creativity, curiosity, and making a meaningful impact [riskledger.com](https://riskledger.com/careers). They emphasize "Intentional Transparency" as a core value.
- **Work Environment**: **Hybrid/flexible** working based out of their London office, typically requiring **2-3 days in the office**.
- **Perks & Benefits** [riskledger.com](https://riskledger.com/careers):
    - 25 days annual leave + public holidays + "August rest leave" + "Festive rest leave" (company-wide winter break).
    - 30 days per year to work from abroad.
    - Private healthcare through AXA (including enhanced mental health coverage).
    - Gender-neutral family leave policy with 12 weeks paid leave.
    - 5 days paid "Caretakers leave."
    - £500 WFH budget and £500 annual training budget.
    - Regular socials and large company parties.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Joining a well-funded, fast-growing Series A startup (30% headcount growth YoY) where employees can make a significant impact and help shape the company’s trajectory.

## Sources
1. [Risk Ledger Website](https://riskledger.com/)
2. [Risk Ledger About Page](https://riskledger.com/about)
3. [Risk Ledger Careers Page](https://riskledger.com/careers)
4. [Crunchbase - Risk Ledger](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/risk-ledger)
5. [LinkedIn - Risk Ledger](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/risk-ledger)

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