Data residency
AWS Cape Town
Customer data hosted in af-south-1 by default. EU and US residency available at Enterprise+.
About
SecureByte is a South African compliance automation platform — POPIA-native, hosted in AWS Cape Town, built for the engineering and compliance teams who run inside the audit window, not just for it.
Why we built it
We have watched the same pattern play out in every SA tech company we have worked with. Six weeks before an audit, the team scrambles to find evidence for controls that were almost always being run correctly. They take screenshots. They export CSVs. They build a one-week spreadsheet that nobody opens again until the next audit.
It is not a software gap. It is a workflow gap. Compliance has become an unowned background process — running silently, accumulating debt, until an external deadline forces a sprint.
SecureByte is the platform that owns that background process. It evaluates controls continuously, collects tamper-evident evidence, and produces audit-ready packages on demand. The auditor sees the receipt, your team sees the truth, and nobody has to run the spreadsheet again.
The context
Data residency
AWS Cape Town
Customer data hosted in af-south-1 by default. EU and US residency available at Enterprise+.
Regulators we map for
POPIA · FSCA · HPCSA
The frameworks SA technical teams actually have to satisfy — not just the US ones our competitors prioritise.
Founded
2025 · Johannesburg
Bootstrapped, technical founder, building toward the first 100 paying customers before any external capital.
Careers
SecureByte is bootstrapped and in the early-customer phase. We do not have a public careers page because we are not running a recruitment funnel. We do, however, talk to every senior engineer, compliance specialist, or designer who reaches out — the team we hire from in 2026/27 is being shortlisted now.
If you build software, do compliance for a living, or have shipped designs for developer tooling and want a conversation, email hello@securebyte.co.za with a short note about what you’ve built. South Africa-based candidates get the fastest reply because we hire locally first.
Two ways to start. Neither asks for a credit card.