ORCA Security Director RD 

Israel, Tel-Aviv District, Tel-Aviv 

873968649

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.

As the
Director of Data Platform , you will lead one of Orca’s most critical and strategic engineering groups, responsible for building, scaling, and evolving the core data Ingestion, processing and serving infrastructure that powers our entire platform.

You will be accountable for the vision, strategy, execution, and delivery of the Data Platform group, empowering R&D teams across Orca with the data capabilities they need to drive innovation and deliver customer value. You’ll lead and grow multiple teams of engineers and managers, drive architectural and organizational excellence, and ensure our systems handle billions of cloud signals daily with performance, security, and reliability in mind.

Python, Go, Rust, SingleStore, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS

• Define and drive the long term vision and roadmap for the Data Platform group.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of engineers and engineering managers.
• Collaborate with product and platform leadership to ensure alignment with business and technical goals.
• Make high-impact architectural and design decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Set and maintain engineering excellence standards including clean code, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.
• Own delivery and execution of large-scale initiatives from planning through release.
• Create a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a key technical leader and cross-functional collaborator across R&D and company leadership.
• Stay informed of industry trends and guide the team in adopting cutting edge technologies where relevant.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience; advanced degrees are a plus.
• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, with at least 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven track record of leading high impact groups building scalable, data- intensive systems.
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and real- time data processing.
• Hands on experience with modern infrastructure and data technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, SingleStore, or similar.
• Deep understanding of software design principles, concurrency, memory management, and systems design.
• Experience managing managers, scaling organizations, and building effective processes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the company.
• Passionate about mentoring talent, leading through impact, and delivering exceptional engineering outcomes.