Equity for every employee
Every Guardian receives restricted stock units on joining, refreshed annually. We publish the strike price, the current 409A valuation and a plain-English explanation of what your grant is actually worth.
Careers at Guardian
Defend six thousand organisations before lunch
Guardian is 1,900 people across 24 offices and nine time zones, building the platform that contains the median intrusion in 8.4 seconds. If you have ever been the person paged at 03:00, you already understand the problem we are solving.
How we work
Written-first, remote-fluent, allergic to heroics
Security companies are unusually prone to a bad habit: rewarding the person who stayed up all night rather than fixing the system that required it. Guardian deliberately does the opposite.
Every team publishes a written operating charter. Every significant decision starts as a document that people read before they discuss it, so influence does not depend on which time zone you woke up in. Every on-call rotation is paid, capped and followed by compensating time off. Every incident — ours or a customer's — ends in a blameless review whose action items have named owners and due dates, published company-wide.
- Documents, not meetings. Guardian runs an average of 4.1 recurring meetings per person per week, and we track it.
- On-call is compensated and capped. Maximum one week in six, with a mandatory recovery day after any P1 page.
- Everyone rotates through Guardian Labs. Engineers spend two weeks with threat researchers in their first year, watching real tradecraft rather than reading about it.
- Pay bands are published internally. Levels, ranges and promotion criteria are visible to every Guardian from day one.
Where the 1,900 work — headcount by function, June 2026
1,900
Guardians worldwide
24
Offices across five continents
45%
Fully remote, permanently
4.4yr
Median tenure in engineering
92%
Would recommend Guardian to a peer
31%
Of 2025 hires came from internal referrals
Benefits
The package, stated plainly
Benefits vary slightly by country because local law and local markets differ. What follows is the global floor — every Guardian gets at least this, everywhere.
Health cover, family included
Fully funded medical, dental and vision for you and your dependants in every country we employ, with no waiting period and no exclusion for pre-existing conditions where law permits.
Remote-first, genuinely
Work from anywhere in the country where you are employed, plus up to 60 days a year working from another Guardian country. Team offsites twice a year, fully funded, so distance never becomes distrust.
Learning budget that gets used
$4,000 per year for conferences, courses and certifications, plus paid exam time. Guardian covers OSCP, CISSP, cloud architecture and SANS-equivalent tracks in full, including the retake.
20 weeks parental leave
Twenty weeks fully paid for every new parent regardless of gender or route to parenthood, taken flexibly across the first two years, with a phased return at 80% hours on full pay for a month.
Sabbatical at five years
Six paid weeks on your fifth anniversary and every five years after. Taken as one block — the point is a genuine disconnection, not a longer holiday.
Home setup and connectivity
A $2,500 home-office allowance refreshed every three years, a monthly connectivity stipend, and hardware of your choosing — including the second monitor nobody should have to justify.
Real support for on-call
Paid on-call rotation capped at one week in six, a mandatory recovery day after any P1 page, and confidential counselling for anyone working sustained incident response. Burnout is treated as a system failure.
Retirement and long-term security
Employer pension or 401(k) contribution of 6% with no matching requirement, life assurance at four times salary, and income protection from day one.
Hiring process
Five steps, roughly eighteen days, no surprise assignments
You will know the full process, the interviewers and the evaluation criteria before the first call. We do not run unpaid take-home projects longer than three hours, and we give a decision within two business days of the final stage.
Application review
A recruiter and the hiring manager read every application. No keyword filter decides your outcome, and we do not require a cover letter. If your background is unconventional, tell us in three sentences why it maps to the role — that is the whole application.
Recruiter conversation
Thirty minutes covering the role, the team, the process and — before you ask — the salary band and equity range for your level and location. We share it unprompted on this call, every time.
Hiring manager interview
Sixty minutes on the craft: how you have detected, built, sold or supported something hard, and what you would have done differently. We are looking for specific, first-hand detail rather than framework recital.
Working session
Two to three hours pairing with the team on a genuine Guardian problem — a detection gap, an architecture trade-off, a customer objection, a documentation rewrite. No algorithm puzzles, no unpaid weekend project, no whiteboard theatre.
Team and values conversation
Two Guardians from outside the hiring team assess how you make decisions, handle disagreement and escalate risk. Then a decision within two business days, with written feedback either way.
Adjustments are normal, not exceptional.
Tell your recruiter what you need — extra time, written questions in advance, a
different format, a quieter setting — and we will arrange it without asking you to
justify it or disclose anything you would rather keep private.
Open roles
Ten positions open right now
Every listing shows the location, the department and the working pattern. Salary bands are shared on the first call — always, without you having to ask.
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Senior Detection Engineer
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Staff Software Engineer, Behavioural Graph
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Principal Threat Researcher, Ransomware Operations
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SOC Analyst, Tier 2 — Night Rotation
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Product Manager, Identity Protection
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform
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Enterprise Account Executive, Financial Services
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Incident Response Consultant
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Data Scientist, Model Safety & Evaluation
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Technical Writer, Platform Documentation
Do not see your role? Send us three sentences on what you would build here — we read every one.
Submit an open applicationIn their words
What Guardians say about the work
I came from a SOC where every shift started with 900 open alerts. Here I spend my time writing detections for tradecraft that has never been published. The first time one of mine caught a live intrusion at a hospital, I sat down for a minute.
The written-first thing sounded like corporate theatre until I joined from Singapore. I have never once had a decision made in a meeting I could not attend. That is worth more to me than any benefit on the list.
My first year included two weeks embedded with Guardian Labs. I had shipped security software for six years before that and had never watched an adversary work in real time. It changed how I write code.
Equal opportunity, in practice
Guardian hires on evidence of capability. We use structured interviews with
published criteria, anonymised work samples where practical, and a diverse panel
on every loop. We do not ask for salary history anywhere we operate.
Questions before you apply?
Write to the talent team through the contact page.
A human replies within two business days — including with a straight answer about
band, level and location policy.
Ready when you are
Come and shorten the defender's clock
Ten roles are open across Guardian Labs, engineering, security operations, product and go-to-market — in Austin, London, Munich, Tel Aviv, Singapore, New York and fully remote.