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Watchful | Software Engineer Generalist, SRE, Designer | Full-time | ONSITE | Auckland, New Zealand

Watchful is disrupting the security monitoring sector with AI-accelerated camera monitoring. We’re currently growing rapidly and are looking for talented individuals to help scale up our capacity, deliver excellent user experiences and ensure our systems are air-tight and resilient.

Get in touch if you’re interested in joining a burgeoning startup that is quietly disrupting the security monitoring market and growing rapidly. We will briefly be hiring for the following roles:

Software Engineer Roles (>= Intermediate): - 5+ years experience as SWE - Generalist, product-minded software engineers that can switch between frontend, infra, backend and more - High impact role, directly influencing product/engineering direction - Self-driven, shows initiative, autonomous - Join a team of 4 existing engineers

Designer role: - 3+ years of design experience - Ability to code simple frontends like marketing websites (using AI is fine) - High influence/impact on design direction - Self-driven and able to deliver without much hand-holding - Work directly with lead designer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): - 5+ years of experience - Expert at terraform, cloud services, observability and CI/CD - Able to take initiative to secure, lock down and make reliable the parts of the platform you see fit - Opportunity to drive the SRE culture and make the platform bulletproof

If you’re interested in applying for any of these roles please get in touch with nick.sinclair [at] watchful.co.nz. If you are concerned about lack of experience, get in touch anyway - happy to entertain taking bets on younger, talented engineers/designers.



Interested in the design role - thanks for posting this. What kind of work are you looking for in the portfolio? More brand/website design work or SaaS products? I'm a product-focused designer, and can learn the tech, but I have enterprise UX experience and have run customer discovery and the likes of it.

Just checking if there's one or the other you are looking at, for this role.


Interested in the role a lot. Do you sponsor work visa in New Zealand?


Yes, we do! Send through your CV :)




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