Tech Editor

The opportunity: #

Cossack Labs is looking for an experienced Tech Editor to help us elevate our content. This is a project-based role, with an estimated workload of around 20 hours per week. The exact hours may vary depending on your availability and our specific needs. We have a significant volume of work and exciting plans for the future, so we are looking for someone enthusiastic about a long-term partnership.

We are a data security solutions company, developing software products (open-source and proprietary), as well as providing custom bespoke solutions to innovative development teams around the world. Our mission is to make strong security methodologies and approaches convenient within modern infrastructures and, as the software is eating the world, help it eat the world responsibly, without leaking customer’s data.

Our software is well-known amongst security-aware teams, recommended by OWASP, and popular for easily solving complicated security challenges. Apart from building “off-the-shelf” solutions, we design custom security controls for novel problems.

We work in the B2B space, with customers such as power grid operators, payment processors, legal companies, million-user customer applications. We cater to young ambitious startups and well-established enterprises, who use our software and solutions as core part of their security arsenal. Our customers are smart, but extremely demanding.

Markets: EU, UK, USA.

You will: #

• Plan publication schedules and ensure deadlines are met.
• Verify that content is suitable for the target audience.
• Collaborate with engineers to confirm the technical accuracy of materials.
• Ensure that the content corresponds to the brief, the accents are placed correctly, and the thoughts are communicated clearly.
• Maintain logical flow and consistency across content and suggest structural improvements.
• Verify information, assess sources, and conduct additional research as needed.
• Provide feedback, advice, and suggestions to engineers and other content contributors.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews of articles, blog posts, white papers, case studies, web pages, and other materials.
• Edit for style, tone, grammar, and clarity, making necessary corrections.
• Maintain consistency in style and alignment with company standards and style guidelines.
• Complete final content reviews before publication.

We would expect you to have: #

• Advanced or native English proficiency (preferably British English).
• Experience in professional editing and writing in a technical environment (for IT/software companies).
• Portfolio showcasing articles, technical documentation, guides, or manuals.
• Exceptional attention to detail, particularly in grammar, clarity, and style.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate ideas clearly.
• Strong understanding of corporate identity principles and modern marketing practices.

As a plus you’d have: #

• Engineering background or experience working closely with engineers.
• Experience writing/editing in the cybersecurity industry.
• Experience in creating or maintaining technical style guides.

Please note that you can be a perfect fit even if not everything we’ve outlined above applies to you. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask – everyone is unique.

Hiring Process: #

• Introduction call
• Test task
• Interview
• Offer

We offer: #

• Competitive hourly compensation
• Long-term cooperation
• Flexibility in managing your workload
• Fully remote work

Not sure but considering? Talk to us. #

If you see yourself fit but a few things are off — don’t hesitate to talk anyway. It might be that your unique combination of skills and knowledge would be perfectly fitting for our environment, but we both just don’t know it yet.

Why work at Cossack Labs? #

Some companies prioritise talent and value proposition, while others understand business and would take any job that pays well. However, only few companies choose to specialise in difficult tasks as their primary competency.

We take on difficult jobs, we take mission-critical software and make it mission-secure.

• Virtualise OT infrastructure securely in the presence of active adversaries, preventing them from accessing the susceptible nation-wide network? ✓ Check.
• Provide immediate application security and infrastructure security guidance for mission-critical application that will be deployed on thousands of devices on the front-line tomorrow? ✓ Check.
• Validate counter-reverse engineering protections for power grid hardware to ensure that previously air-gapped environments were safe to open up to the outside world? ✓ Check.
• Ensure that software platforms for exchange of sensitive documents actually have a top-tier SSDLC programme that supplements missing capabilities and builds out processes? ✓ Check.

We operate as a lean core team and a diverse network of experts. The finest people you may work with include PhDs in information security and cryptography, infosec community standard contributors, in-depth experts in rare security topics, and business-centric security engineers with broad experiences. Some of your teammates have worked in infosec since the 1990s and saw the industry grow from nothing. Some of them helped write standards that govern security around you. Maybe someone’s work actually keeps the lights up while you’re reading this?

Our core engineers go through extensive indoctrination and training to become disciplined, stringent, self-sufficient field unit who owns the outcomes rather than just showing up for work.

As you grow into the Cossack Labs engineer, you’ll work on slow-paced projects to learn and improve, internal projects to innovate and build tools, and of course a few fires, because no smooth sea can make a skilled sailor. You’ll discover what works for you and what you need to learn.

We help innovators who are launching new venues of civilisation while facing significant security risks in becoming more secure and resilient. Customers trust us to achieve their business goals, not merely address gaps someone else has to identify first.

If this is a challenge you’re up to, let's talk!