Middle+/Senior Python Engineer
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.
Orca is delivering a modern cloud security platform built for engineers who care about visibility, context, and speed. We scan your entire cloud environment – across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more – giving you deep insights into risks like misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and active threats. Our unified platform shows you what actually matters by prioritizing findings based on context like exposure, privilege, and potential impact.
Cloud teams love Orca because it’s fast to deploy, easy to maintain, and built to scale with the way real infrastructure works.
About the role
As our team member, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining both the web and analytics infrastructure that powers our platform.
On the web infrastructure side, you'll work managing the infrastructure and helping other teams with the best practise of API development, including authentication and role-based access control (RBAC), user management, and database operations, etc.
On the analytics infrastructure side, you'll help design and implement scalable data pipelines, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization and ensuring the delivery of accurate and actionable insights.
You’ll be part of a collaborative, high-impact team operating at the intersection of backend systems and data engineering. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building reliable infrastructure and shaping how data supports our product and business.
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Responsibilities
- Write clean, concise code that is stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
- Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
- Implement new requirements within our Agile delivery methodology while following our established architectural principles
- Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
- Write code that meets the production requirements and design specifications and anticipate potential errors/issue
- Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
- Develop expertise of the Web-servers infrastructure
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience
- 4+ years Python development experience
- Experienced in the Web Frameworks for Python (DRF, fastapi, flask, etc) development
- Experienced in building and supporting analytic systems
- Knowledge of designing and implementing event-driven systems
- Deep understanding of SQL database capabilities within the web applications (PostgreSQL)
- Experienced in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native services, focused on AWS cloud infrastructure
- Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc.
- Ability to prioritize and organize effectively, good communication skills
- Solid analytical and troubleshooting abilities
Benefits
- Work in a highly professional team. Informal and friendly atmosphere in the team
- Paid vacation — 20 business days per year, 100% sick leave payment
- Equipment provision
- Partially compensated educational costs (for courses, certifications, professional events, etc.)
- Legal and Accounting support in Poland
- Ability to work from our comfortable office in Warsaw at Prosta 51
- 5 sick days per year
- Medical insurance (after the end of the probationary period)
- Flexible working hours – we care about you (!) and your output
- English and Polish classes 2 times a week (online)
- Bright and memorable corporate life: corporate parties, gifts to employees on significant dates
Join us
To be considered for this position, you must have Polish citizenship, a D-type work visa, or a residence permit. Thank you!
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