Senior Backend Software Engineer

Silverfort is a cyber-security startup that develops a revolutionary identity protection platform. Using patented technology, our product enables strong authentication across entire corporate networks and cloud environments, without any modifications to endpoints and servers. In addition, we use advanced behavior analytics to apply adaptive authentication policies and prevent cyber-attacks in real time.

Our mission is to provide industry-leading unified identity protection solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We develop cutting-edge cybersecurity technology that solves urgent customer needs today and is also a game changer for years to come.

Silverfort’s team includes exceptional researchers, engineers, and technology experts who successfully tackle some of the most complex challenges in cyber-security. Silverfort has happy customers worldwide, strong market validation (including several industry awards), strategic partnerships with the largest security vendors in the world, and significant funding from leading VCs.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer who will build innovative engines that run at the heart of our product and deliver scalable and reliable server-side software. In this role, you will demonstrate agility and creativity while solving diverse challenges in real-time data processing, system design, and network analysis. 

• Development of Silverfort's risk engine, which powers key product components such as Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) 
• Build a scalable and maintainable enterprise-grade product that runs in complex and large-scale environments, both on-premise and SaaS 
• Set and promote best practices for coding, architecture, testing, and deployment across the engineering team
• Take part in the architecture and technical decision-making across key projects
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure best practices are followed for software development and deployments
• Work closely with the data science and security research teams, converting research insights into production code 

• 7+ years of experience in Backend software development 
• Experience with development of Microservices architecture
• Experience with NodeJS\Go development - an advantage 
• Experience with NestJS – an advantage
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub - Advantage. 
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) - An advantage
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent military experience - an advantage 
• A true team player, quick learner, independent, imaginative, and motivated!