Backend Team Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of backend engineers , fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence.

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the DLP product and its backend services.

• Design and build high scale distributed systems that ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of SaaS security events.

• Drive architectural decisions around event driven systems, data pipelines, and cloud native infrastructure .

• Collaborate closely with product managers, security researchers, and data teams to deliver impactful security capabilities.

• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, architecture discussions, and code reviews .

• Ensure high standards for performance, reliability, scalability, and observability .

• Build and optimize systems leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and GCP services .

• Drive innovation by exploring and integrating AI-based capabilities for advanced data classification and security detection .

• Maintain operational ownership of production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvements .

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend systems and distributed architectures .

• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or team lead role , managing and mentoring engineers.

• Strong hands-on experience with Golang (or other backend languages with a willingness to work in Go)-an advantage

• Experience designing and operating large scale cloud native systems .

• Strong experience with Major cloud platforms – GCP is an advantage.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized microservices architectures .

• Experience building event driven systems and streaming pipelines using Kafka or similar technologies .

• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, performance optimization, and reliability engineering .

• Experience working with large scale data processing systems .

• Experience working with and early adapting to new AI tools.

• Background in cybersecurity, SaaS security, or data protection technologies - an advantage.

• Background in SaaS applciation API usage and throttling – an advantage

• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem solving skills.

• Ability to thrive in fast moving environments with high ownership and autonomy .

• Believe in learning new things every day.