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Engineering Team Lead — Cloud Security
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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, without the burden of traditional heavy agents.
📌 Check this article to understand the product, workflow, and see the people on the Sensor team.
About the role
As an Engineering Team Lead, you’ll work on a scalable, low-overhead system that collects and processes real-time telemetry to detect threats and anomalies across modern cloud environments.
You’ll take on a hands-on developer role with DevOps exposure, leading the design and development of innovative software products.
The role primarily involves coding in Go, but we also welcome strong Java developers who are open to switching languages.
If you enjoy tackling performance and reliability challenges in cloud infrastructure, you’ll feel right at home with us.
💰 Referral bonus: $3,000 if you recommend us a great fit!
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Responsibilities
- Technically oversee end-to-end product implementation, including back-end as well as system part (runtime on Windows/Linux)
- Ensure end-to-end ownership of the solution by contributing to DevOps aspects of the product (Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting)
- Provide input into the architecture and design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
- Contribute to feature implementation (primarily in Go language)
- 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 6 people)
- Lead communication with stakeholders (upper management, technical support, sales) representing the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend 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 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)
- 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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