Required Senior Software Engineer
Were looking for driven and talented people like you to join our R&D team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?
Highlights:
High-growth: Over the past seven years, weve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, weve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didnt work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. Were 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. Were 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.
About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform, youll be part of one of Orcas most strategic engineering groups, tasked with building the core data ingestion and processing infrastructure that powers our entire platform. The team is responsible for handling billions of cloud signals daily, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency across Orcas architecture.
Youll work on large-scale distributed systems, own critical components of the cloud security data pipeline, and drive architectural decisions that influence how data is ingested, normalized, and made available for product teams across Orca. Were currently in the midst of a major architectural transformation, evolving our ingestion and processing layers to support real-time pipelines, improved observability, and greater horizontal scalability, and were looking for experienced engineers who are eager to make foundational impact!
Our Stack: Python, Go, Rust, SingleStore, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS
On a typical day youll:
Write clean, concise code that is stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
Write production-ready code that meets design specifications, anticipates edge cases, and accounts for scalability
Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
Implement new requirements within our Agile delivery methodology while following our established architectural principles
Lead initiatives end to end from design and planning to implementation and deployment, while aligning cross-functional teams and ensuring technical excellence
Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
Develop expertise of AWS, Azure, and GCP products and technologies.
Were looking for driven and talented people like you to join our R&D team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?
Highlights:
High-growth: Over the past seven years, weve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, weve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didnt work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. Were 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. Were 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.
About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform, youll be part of one of Orcas most strategic engineering groups, tasked with building the core data ingestion and processing infrastructure that powers our entire platform. The team is responsible for handling billions of cloud signals daily, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency across Orcas architecture.
Youll work on large-scale distributed systems, own critical components of the cloud security data pipeline, and drive architectural decisions that influence how data is ingested, normalized, and made available for product teams across Orca. Were currently in the midst of a major architectural transformation, evolving our ingestion and processing layers to support real-time pipelines, improved observability, and greater horizontal scalability, and were looking for experienced engineers who are eager to make foundational impact!
Our Stack: Python, Go, Rust, SingleStore, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS
On a typical day youll:
Write clean, concise code that is stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
Write production-ready code that meets design specifications, anticipates edge cases, and accounts for scalability
Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
Implement new requirements within our Agile delivery methodology while following our established architectural principles
Lead initiatives end to end from design and planning to implementation and deployment, while aligning cross-functional teams and ensuring technical excellence
Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
Develop expertise of AWS, Azure, and GCP products and technologies.
Requirements:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience
5+ years of professional software development experience
Proven experience building data-intensive systems at scale
Experience in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native services
Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc
Hands-on experience with databases such as SingleStore, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis
Experience with Python / Go (Advantage)
Experience with distributed data processing tools like Kafka (Advantage).
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience
5+ years of professional software development experience
Proven experience building data-intensive systems at scale
Experience in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native services
Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc
Hands-on experience with databases such as SingleStore, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis
Experience with Python / Go (Advantage)
Experience with distributed data processing tools like Kafka (Advantage).
This position is open to all candidates.
