Senior Software Engineer

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About the team

‍Orca Security is a cybersecurity startup and cloud innovation leader. Founded in 2019 in Israel by former Check Point managers, it raised $630+ million and became a 'unicorn' in 2021.

As part of Orca cloud security suite, our team is building Orca Sensor — a lightweight runtime component that brings deep visibility and protection to cloud workloads running on Kubernetes, serverless engines and virtual machines.

Our mission is to make cloud security smarter, faster, and easier to deploy, without the burden of traditional agents. If you enjoy solving performance and reliability challenges in modern cloud infrastructure, you’ll feel right at home here.

📌 Check this article to understand the product, workflow, and see the people on the Sensor team.

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About the role

You'll work on a scalable, low-overhead system that collects and processes real-time telemetry to detect threats and anomalies across all sorts of modern cloud environments. ‍

If you enjoy tackling security, performance and reliability challenges in cloud infrastructure, you’ll feel right at home with us.

Responsibilities

• Contribute primarily to the Go/Python codebase to the microservices backend and runtime sensor (Go on Linux/Windows, container/k8s integrations)

• Own the product end-to-end, including DevOps: Helm charts, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), monitoring/alerting (Grafana/Prometheus)

• Contribute to architecture and design decisions. Performance, low overhead, reliability, and security of a sensor running on customer infrastructure are first-class concerns

• Participate in on-call rotation and production incident response for the team domain

• Develop expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP products and technologies

Requirements

• 5+ years of production software engineering experience in low-level/back-end languages (with willingness to ramp on Go fast)

• At least one of:

  • Low-level / systems experience: system programming for Linux/Windows with a focus on performance

  • Deep backend experience with microservices at scale

• Strong grasp of software fundamentals: concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, and OS internals

• Production experience with at least one major cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) and Kubernetes

• DevOps experience: Helm, GitHub Actions, container runtimes, observability tooling

• Hands-on experience with eBPF, syscall tracing, or runtime telemetry frameworks - strong plus

• Knowledge of cybersecurity domain — advantage