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Team Lead Golang Engineer — Sensor Team
About On The Spot
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
We're the team building Orca Sensor – a lightweight runtime component that brings deep visibility and protection to cloud workloads running on Kubernetes, serverless engines and virtual machines.
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. You will assume the pivotal position of developer with exposure to DevOps domain, entrusted with spearheading the creation of innovative software products.
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.
While we're based in Warsaw and prefer local candidates, we're open to remote collaboration from anywhere in Poland for the right fit.
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Responsibilities
- Write code preliminary in Go language that is clean, concise, stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
- Working with Python when necessary (not a core skill, but a definite advantage).
- Technically oversee end-to-end product implementation, including back-end as well as system part (runtime on Windows/Linux)
- Contribute to DevOps aspects of the product (Helm charts, Github actions, Grafana) — expect to work on this up to 30% of time
- Provide input into the architecture and design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
- Develop expertise of AWS, Azure, and GCP products and technologies
- Oversee team ceremonies and manage team deliveries
- Manage team performance and employee wellbeing (up to 7 people)
- Lead communication with stakeholders (product management, technical support, sales) representing the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of Go development experience
- Experience in cloud platforms — at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP
- Interest and experience in DevOps domain (K8s, Terraform, Helm charts, Github actions, Grafana)
- Experienced in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native services
- At least 1 year of experience as a team leader, demonstrating proven leadership and the ability to guide technical decisions — advantage
- Knowledge of cybersecurity domain — advantage
- Experience with C++/C — advantage
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 supportin 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)
- 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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