Senior Software Developer
Join Orca Security as a Senior Software Engineer to build core data ingestion and processing infrastructure for cloud security.
Posted by employer 1 week ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 days ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Developer at Orca Security, the individual will focus on developing and enhancing the core data ingestion and processing infrastructure that supports the company's cloud security platform. Key skills include proficiency in Python, Go, and experience with large-scale distributed systems, as well as a solid grasp of database technologies like SingleStore and Postgres. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over five years of experience in building data-intensive systems and a strong background in microservices and cloud-native architectures. Orca is currently undergoing a significant architectural transformation, emphasizing real-time data processing
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- Listed 8 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Orca Security's career page.
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Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Developer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Elasticsearch, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Orca Security targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Developer role at Orca Security.
From the original posting
About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform, you’ll be part of one of Orca’s 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 Orca’s architecture.
You’ll 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. We're 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 we’re 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 you'll:
- 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
About you:
- Bachelor’s 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)