Staff Engineer – Cto Office 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.

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.

• 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

Highlights:

• High growth: In just six years, we’ve reached milestones that take other companies a decade or more. We’ve doubled our employee count, tripled our customer count, and rapidly expanded 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.

• Cloud Cost Monitoring: Maintain close, continuous oversight of cloud infrastructure costs to ensure transparency, predictability, and control.
• Real-Time Cost Alerting: Develop and deploy real-time alerting systems to detect and notify on cost spikes or anomalies.
• Service Analysis & Optimization: Gain deep expertise across cloud services and conduct regular audits to uncover cost-saving opportunities.
• Short- and Long-Term Cost Strategies: Design and implement plans for both immediate cost savings and long-term cloud financial efficiency.
• Dashboards & Reporting: Build dynamic dashboards and reports using Grafana, Datadog, AWS Explorer, Coralogix
• Automation & Tooling: Configure and manage cost optimization platforms and develop internal tools for usage analysis.
• Forecasting & Planning: Produce financial models and forecasts to support cloud scaling decisions.
• Multi-Cloud Optimization: Analyze and optimize costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI environments.

• 2–3 years of experience as a FinOps Engineer or equivalent
• DevOps experience and familiarity with related tools – Must
• Proven experience in Cloud Cost Management , FinOps , or optimization related roles
• Hands-on experience with AWS (GCP and Azure are a strong plus)
• Proficiency with tools like Grafana , AWS Cost Explorer , Athena , BigQuery , Coralogix or similar
• Solid experience with Python , SQL , and shell scripting for automation
• Familiarity with Kubernetes cost structures (EKS, requests/limits, autoscaling, etc.)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines , IaaC (Terraform), and cloud-native DevOps tooling
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to identify cost anomalies, inefficiencies, and optimization opportunities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work cross-functionally across R&D, Finance, and Operations
• Proactive, ownership-driven, and passionate about achieving both financial and technical excellence
• Experience working with 10+ R&D teams , enabling cost-aware engineering practices at scale

• Primary Platform: AWS
• Additional Providers: GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud (OCI), and Alibaba Cloud

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.

• 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.