Research Team Lead jobs at Orca Security in Israel, Tel-aviv

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

: Python, Linux & Windows internals, Container Runtimes, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services for scanning and analyzing cloud workloads (VMs, containers, buckets, databases, etc..)
• Build infrastructure for reconstructing file systems across different operating systems (Linux and Windows) to enable deep analysis
• Integrate security detection engines for vulnerabilities, secrets, compliance, and malware
• Collaborate with security researchers and product managers to translate complex requirements into impactful product features
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code, ensuring high performance and reliability
• Participate in design and code reviews to uphold technical excellence and team standards
• Lead features end-to-end – from design and planning to deployment and monitoring
• Improve system observability, performance, and resilience in production environments
• Stay current with developments in the cloud security landscape, vulnerability management, and OS internals

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience building backend services or distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Python
• Solid understanding of operating system internals
• Familiarity with vulnerability management concepts or tooling
• Experience with major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
• Strong foundation in software design principles, concurrency, memory management, data structures, and algorithms
• Passionate about building great products and solving real-world security challenges
• Self-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership and initiative
• A strong communicator and a true team player who thrives in a collaborative environment

• Familiarity with container internals and runtime security
• Experience with large-scale file system analysis, malware analysis, or digital forensics
• Background in cybersecurity, especially in cloud security domains

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

You will manage a team of world-class researchers, work closely with product, engineering and go-to-market teams, and ensure our research remains cutting-edge, rigorous and impactful.

• Develop, own and evolve the research strategy by defining high value focus areas such as cloud misconfigurations, identity threats, workload vulnerabilities and side channel attacks, and ensuring alignment with Orca’s product roadmap and business objectives.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a multidisciplinary research team of cloud-security experts, threat analysts, and software engineers.
• Define metrics for research impact: e.g., number of vulnerabilities discovered, mean time to detection of new threats, number of research-driven product innovations.
• Leverage large-scale data analysis and AI/ML tools to identify trends, automate detection, and enhance cloud threat intelligence.
• Identify and drive discovery of new vulnerabilities, attack techniques or adversary behaviors targeting cloud platforms, containers, serverless, data stores etc.
• Stay current with the threat-landscape, emerging technologies, adversary tactics, and regulatory/compliance changes affecting cloud security.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and R&D teams to ensure research insights translate into concrete features, detection logic, and customer value.
• Manage the research resource planning, tooling/infrastructure for the research function – including sandbox environments, data analysis tooling, and attack simulations.
• Establish partnerships with external research groups, academic institutions, and industry peers to amplify our capabilities and knowledge network.
• Publish research findings (blog posts, white-papers, conference talks) to elevate Orca’s reputation as a cloud-security innovator.
• Influence the broader security community through vulnerability disclosures, advisory publications, industry working groups, and open research collaboration.

• 7+ years in security research, threat intelligence, vulnerability discovery or related roles, with experience and passion for leadership.
• Proven experience in managing a team – mandatory
• Deep technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), serverless, IAM, data storage, code repositories and associated threat vectors.
• Proven ability to write production-quality code, particularly in Python and Go.
• Deep experience with data systems: SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, or similar).
• Experience applying data analysis, machine learning, or AI-assisted tools (e.g., LLMs, automated pattern recognition, or anomaly detection) to security research.
• Proven track record of publishing and presenting research (vulnerability advisories, conference talks, white-papers), and translating research into product/detection capabilities.
• Hands-on ability: understanding of reverse engineering, exploit development, or other cutting-edge security techniques.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills: building and scaling a team, setting vision, driving execution.
• Excellent communication skills: able to share technical insights with engineering, product, senior leadership, and external audience.
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and the ability to align research activities with company objectives.

• Experience building or contributing to security-product codebases (e.g. scanning engines, detection frameworks, or telemetry pipelines).
  

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

You’ll contribute to a high-impact codebase that scans, analyzes, and interprets complex Kubernetes configurations and behaviors at scale. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Orca’s KSPM product – owning core backend components, driving architectural improvements, and delivering features that address real-world customer needs.

: Python, Go, K8s APIs, SingleStore, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure, ElasticSearch

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services for onboarding, scanning, and analyzing Kubernetes environments
• Collaborate with security researchers and product managers to translate complex requirements into impactful product features
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code, ensuring high performance and reliability
• Participate in design and code reviews to uphold technical excellence and team standards
• Lead features end-to-end – from design and planning to deployment and monitoring
• Improve system observability, performance, and resilience in production environments
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to continuously enhance product capabilities and customer value
• Stay current with developments in the Kubernetes ecosystem and cloud security landscape

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Hands on experience with Python or Go – Must
• Proven experience with microservices architecture and cloud-native systems
• Solid foundation in software design principles, concurrency, memory management, data structures, and algorithms
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset

• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and managed Kubernetes solutions (EKS, GKE, AKS)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes internals and container technologies
• Background in cybersecurity, especially in cloud security domains

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

You’ll lead a group of talented senior engineers, providing both technical and people leadership while staying hands-on in design and implementation. Together, you’ll drive key architectural decisions and evolve our ingestion and processing layers to support real-time pipelines, improve observability, and enable greater horizontal scalability.

Our Stack:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior software engineers through one-on-ones, feedback, and technical guidance
• Own and drive the delivery of high-impact projects end-to-end, from design through deployment and production monitoring
• Design and review architecture for large-scale distributed systems focused on data ingestion, normalization, and availability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, SRE, and other R&D teams to define priorities, interfaces, and success metrics
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and observability of core services, introducing SLOs and best practices for operations
• Participate in incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and accountability within the team
• Write and review clean, maintainable, and tested, take part of the on-call rotation

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years in a team lead role
• Proven experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale, data-intensive systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design, concurrency, synchronization, data modeling, and performance optimization
• Hands-on experience with at least one of: Python, Go – Must .
• Experience with distributed data processing tools like Kafka (Advantage)
• Hands-on experience with databases such as SingleStore, Postgres, Redis
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align engineers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical growth
• Comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people and project leadership responsibilities
• Experience with real-time data processing and streaming pipelines (Advantage)

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

Highlights:

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of backend systems and APIs within the Compliance domain
• Architect scalable solutions to process cloud inventory data, alerts, and calculate compliance results
• Collaborate with product management to translate requirements into robust technical solutions that address real customer needs
• Mentor and coach mid-level developers, fostering their growth and ensuring technical excellence
• Drive the adoption of best practices in coding, testing, and deployment across the team
• Write code that meets the production requirements and design specifications, and anticipate potential errors / issues
• Stay up to date with emerging cloud security and compliance standards and drive their implementation within the product

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud—so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and own major product domains, including Application Security, Compliance, and Container Security, driving innovation and market adoption.
• Manage, mentor, and empower a team of experienced Product Managers, each leading critical security domains within Orca’s offering.
• Collaborate closely with R&D, Product Design, Marketing, and Sales to define and execute a roadmap that delivers cutting-edge security capabilities.
• Shape Orca’s long-term product strategy and contribute to the company’s vision for cloud security leadership.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven managerial experience, preferably in leading a team of product managers.
• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager in complex SaaS platforms. A background in cloud development is a plus.
• Cybersecurity expertise is a strong advantage.
• Passion for user experience and delivering impactful, customer-centric products.