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title: 'Solutions Engineer at Valarian Technologies Limited'
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# Solutions Engineer at Valarian Technologies Limited

- **Company:** Valarian Technologies Limited
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/valarian/a0609dfd-394e-4c3d-a08d-0292ebb163d8

## Job description

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.

We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company. The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data. Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organisations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc. And we’ve only scratched the surface.

At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world. Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure.

## The Role

As a Solutions Engineer, you will deploy, extend, and integrate our secure Kubernetes platform (ACRA) into real-world workflows. You aren't just writing backend services in Go—you are partnering directly with end-users to understand their operational constraints, adapting our containerized workloads to their infrastructure, and feeding crucial feedback back into the core platform team. You will write production Go, build React frontend components, configure microservices, and orchestrate Kubernetes workloads while collaborating across frontend, core backend, infrastructure, and AI teams to deliver client outcomes. What you’ll do: Deploy & Integrate: Build backend microservices, APIs, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) in Go to integrate ACRA into diverse customer environments (isolated enclaves, edge clusters, hybrid cloud). Bridge Product & Customer: Translate ambiguous client security requirements and user workflows into practical technical implementations without waiting for detailed specs. Kubernetes Application Development: Develop containerized applications, Helm charts, and event-driven microservices running seamlessly on customer K8s platforms. Collaborate with Specialists: Partner with embedded DevOps/Infra specialists (for base cluster provisioning) and ML/AI engineers (for model harness integration), keeping client value at the center. Close the Feedback Loop: Identify recurring integration patterns and work with core engineering to turn custom client fixes into standardized platform features. What we are looking for:

## About Valarian Technologies Limited

## Company Overview
- **One‑liner**: Valarian builds infrastructure that lets enterprises and governments run AI, agents and applications inside a hardened, governed environment where the customer — not the vendor — holds the keys.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Max Buchan (CEO) and Josh McLaughlin (COO) [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/about)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: National security, defence, regulated enterprise (finance, critical infrastructure)
- **Target customers**: Government / defence organisations and regulated enterprises that require high‑trust, high‑stakes deployment (B2B)
- **Mission / purpose**: “Building the infrastructure to regain control over your high‑consequence systems” — giving customers model independence, auditability and containment without ceding control to a third party [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/)

## Products & Services
- **ACRA (Automated Compartmentalised Runtime Architecture)**: A Kubernetes‑native control architecture that extends the cluster with workload‑level governance. Each workload (model, agent, service) runs inside its own enclave with built‑in policy enforcement, default‑deny networking, short‑lived secrets, per‑workload messaging and end‑to‑end audit. ACRA is cloud‑agnostic and can run on AWS, Azure, on‑prem or air‑gapped. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding – $70M** (Series A of $50M led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing total to $70M) [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: New Enterprise Associates (lead), plus “leading defence and national security investors”; also backed by operators from Palantir, Darktrace and US Special Operations. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/about)
- **Growth Signals**: Deployed across multiple continents; “100s of enclaves deployed”; headcount grew ~18.5% YoY (from 19 to ~24 employees); actively hiring across engineering, compliance and security roles. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/valarian)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Customer‑held keys**: Even Valarian cannot access customer systems after deployment — governance is enforced by the infrastructure, not by privileged access. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/)
- **Model‑independent**: Customers can run any model (open‑weight or frontier) without vendor lock‑in and without the model provider training on their data. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/)
- **Built by operators with real‑world experience**: The team includes backgrounds from US Special Operations, Palantir, Darktrace, secure communications and high‑assurance systems, giving them credibility in environments where failure has real consequences. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/about)
- **Air‑gap ready**: ACRA is cloud‑agnostic and can operate in disconnected, air‑gapped environments — a rare capability designed from day one for government/defence deployments. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform for wider enterprise and government adoption; continuing to harden ACRA as the posture layer for AI workloads; expanding the team (engineering, security, compliance) to meet demand from regulated sectors. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/valarian)
- **Direction for growth**: Maintain “sovereign control” positioning — enabling customers to own their inference, data and access policies regardless of cloud or infrastructure substrate.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Hybrid work setup with a London HQ (flexibility where it matters, structure where it counts). [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/careers)
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive compensation, equity, and employer‑enhanced pension contributions. [valarian.com](https://www.valarian.com/careers)
- **Engineering environment**: Work on deep infrastructure (Kubernetes, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Cilium, Istio, Vault, NATS, OpenTelemetry) in a high‑trust, high‑impact domain that spans government, defence and regulated enterprise. Engineers are expected to own meaningful pieces of the platform from day one.
- **Notable perks for job seekers**: Opportunity to work on a product that deals with cutting‑edge AI governance and national‑security‑grade isolation; small but growing team (24 people) where contributions are highly visible.

## Sources
1. [valarian.com – Product page](https://www.valarian.com/)
2. [valarian.com – About page](https://www.valarian.com/about)
3. [valarian.com – Careers page](https://www.valarian.com/careers)
4. [jobs.lever.co – Valarian open roles](https://jobs.lever.co/valarian)
5. [linkedin.com – Valarian company page](https://linkedin.com/company/valarian)

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