Team lead engineer in cloud security

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.

• Contribute primarily to the Go/Python codebase as a senior engineer 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)
• Drive architecture and design decisions across the team. Performance, low overhead, reliability, and security of a sensor running on customer infrastructure are first-class concerns
• Lead on-call rotation and production incident response for the team domain
• Run team ceremonies, manage delivery against the roadmap, and grow team members (up to 7 engineers)
• Manage performance and wellbeing of the team

• 7+ years of production software engineering experience in low-level/back-end languages (with willingness to ramp on Go fast)
• Low-level / systems experience: system programming for Linux/Windows with a focus on performance
• Deep backend experience with microservices at scale
• Production experience with at least one major cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) and Kubernetes
• DevOps experience: Helm, GitHub Actions, container runtimes, observability tooling
• 1+ year as a tech lead or team lead, with proven ability to make and defend technical decisions and grow other engineers

• We’ll share more about our benefit package during the interviews.
• We’re based in Warsaw. For this role, it’s important you have the ability to work from the office two days per week.
• Position is open to candidates in Poland. You need to have a residence permit or another valid document allowing work in Poland.