Watchguard Technologies

WatchGuard has deployed nearly a million integrated, multi-function threat management appliances worldwide. Our signature red boxes are architected to be the industry's smartest, fastest, and meanest security devices with every scanning engine running at full throttle.

Protect the Internet. Grow Your Career.
WatchGuard is a collection of employees with a shared vision of providing enterprise-grade security to midsize and distributed enterprises. We are passionate about success, and bring an innovation mindset to everything we do.

Our Flexible Work Philosophy
WatchGuard embraces a flexible work philosophy. The majority of our employees have the choice to work from the office or at home, or any combination of the two. We’ve built a gobal workforce of amazing, diverse team members and a flexible culture built on trust, collaboration, and belonging.

25 Years of Cybersecurity
From our early days in Seattle’s Pioneer Square to a team of more than 1,200 today, our outstanding employees and culture have fueled our success. WatchGuardians past and present have contributed their curiosity, humor, dedication, teamwork, and customer focus to building a cybersecurity platform that simplifies every aspect of security delivery. It’s been a fantastic journey! We’ve gathered photos from decades past and interviewed a wonderful group of our colleagues to create this look back on 25 years of our history.

Pioneering cutting-edge cyber security for more than 20 years.
WatchGuard is a collection of employees with a shared vision of providing enterprise-grade security to midsize and distributed enterprises. We are passionate about success, and bring an innovation mind-set to everything we do. Meet our teams!

Core Values
From the newest employee to our CEO, you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our core values.

ACCOUNTABILITY
We take responsibility for our words and actions, honor our commitments, and do the right thing for our partners, customers, and fellow employees.

BELONGING
We value the diverse experiences and cultures of every individual, empowering all WatchGuardians to share openly and bring their authentic selves to work.

COMMUNITY
We are dedicated to supporting our communities, from our WatchGuard teams worldwide to our local neighborhoods, with kindness, positivity, and intention.

CUSTOMER-CENTRIC
We are empowered and encouraged to put the customer first in all of our actions.

ACTION
We use the best information to act swiftly and confidently and embrace the opportunity to learn and (re)act as necessary.

INNOVATION
We thrive on finding new ways to disrupt and lead the market, our curiosity is insatiable, and our drive to learn and grow is relentless.

Our world-class benefits package includes comprehensive healthcare, competitive retirement plans, and plenty of other perks.

Health and Wellness
- Competitive medical coverage
- HDHP with HSA - UHC
- HRA with employer contribution - UHC
- PPO - UHC
- Dental coverage - Delta
- Vision coverage - VSP
- 98point6 text-based virtual care
- Paid employee life and disability

Financial
- 401(k) with match
- Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Tuition assistance
- Performance bonus
- Health savings account with employer contribution

Lifestyle
- Employee assistance program
- ID Watchdog identity theft
- Leave of absence
- Vacation time (15 days in first year)
- Sick time (varies by location)
- Bereavement leave
- Paid parental leave
- Milk Stork breast milk shipping service
- Legal assistance
- Travel assistance program

Perks
- Birthday holiday
-Floating holiday
- Pet insurance
- Employee referral bonus

Seattle Only
- Paid Orca card
- Game room
- Monthly events
- Wellness room
- Snacks
- Free bootcamp and warmup
- Discounted gym membership
- Discounted monthly parking