Director Cloud Security Engineering jobs in Israel

• 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)

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.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and subject matter experts to document new features, updates, and cutting-edge technologies
• Design, develop, and maintain knowledge base articles that make complex topics easy to understand for our users
• Ensure that our documentation is clear, concise, and accurate, providing comprehensive resources for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proactively update and improve existing documentation based on feedback, product changes, and industry trends
• Take ownership of documentation projects from start to finish, contributing to the continuous improvement of our documentation processes

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical writing or product documentation role, ideally in SaaS, cloud security, or a related field
• Outstanding writing and editing skills, with the ability to make complex topics accessible and engaging
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, marketing, etc.)
• Self-motivated, independent, and driven to take ownership of projects while managing multiple tasks simultaneously
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, SaaS products, or cybersecurity is a big advantage
• Experience mentoring others or contributing to documentation planning and coordination is an advantage
• Experience with API documentation – an advantage
• A proactive attitude, always looking for ways to improve processes and content quality

• Be part of a well-funded, high-growth cloud security company with a stellar reputation
• Work in a hybrid environment, based in Tel Aviv, that supports flexibility and collaboration
• Join a young, energetic team that encourages innovation and creativity
• Opportunity to work on leading-edge products that shape the future of cloud security

• 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.

• Develop code to model and add required data across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, OCI and more)
• Develop alerts and detections for identification of vulnerable cloud systems and misconfigurations
• Generate and add new cloud security compliance frameworks to keep our compliance solution up-to-date
• Leverage AI agents to automate workflows, enhance detection accuracy, and optimize development efficiency
• Assist in improving our current alerting system by fixing false positive and false negative alerts
• Work in an agile environment, working in sprints with your team to deliver high-quality outcomes

• BSc in Computer Science or a related technical field
1–2 years of proven industry experience in Python development – Must.
• Knowledge in networking – OSI model, networking protocols, firewalls
• Familiarity with cloud architecture, services, and basic concepts
• Familiarity with SQL databases
• Comprehension of cybersecurity fundamentals and security best practices
• High level of development and analytical skills
• Self-starter, fast learner, team player, with a can-do attitude
• Great communication and collaboration skills

• Experience in developing with AI-powered tools and agents, such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor

About the Group

ICAPS Software Groupis responsible for the end-to-end development of ICAPS products, which utilize Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) to detect defects and measure nanoscale elements during semiconductor manufacturing.

Our scope includes all software components: database architecture, device control and synchronization, fab interface and automation, and application development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead two software engineering teams, including team leads and developers, to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Oversee the development of two distinct products, ensuring alignment and collaboration across teams.
• Drive all phases of the software development lifecycle: requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, release, and support.
• Collaborate closely with project managers, product managers, and cross-functional teams.
• Champion Agile methodologies and foster a culture of innovation.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the teams.
• Cultivate a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop team members to achieve their full potential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of direct experience managing software engineering teams.
• Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Strong proficiency in Java or C# development.
• Expertise in object-oriented design and development.
• Hands-on experience with Agile frameworks, particularly SCRUM.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
• Commitment to high standards in code quality, testing, and performance.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong learning agility and adaptability.
• Team-oriented mindset with outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Proactive and results-driven approach.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.