Backend Engineer at HUMAN (Tel Aviv, Israel)

HUMAN· Tel Aviv, Israel·18h ago

Role details

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Job description

HUMAN’s Application Protection products safeguard online businesses and their customers from sophisticated bots, fraud, and abuse. The Enforcers team builds the software that connects customer traffic to HUMAN’s real-time detection platform and applies protection decisions directly within customers’ environments. Our components run across CDNs, cloud and serverless platforms, web servers, and application frameworks, making performance, reliability, security, and portability central to everything we build. We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the team and help develop the integration and enforcement layer behind HUMAN’s products. You will work on production software deployed in diverse environments, solve complex web and infrastructure challenges, and own features from design through delivery and operation.

What you’ll do

Design, build, and maintain backend and edge components that integrate HUMAN’s detection and enforcement capabilities into customer environments.
Develop reliable, secure, and maintainable services and SDKs, primarily using JavaScript and TypeScript.
Own the full software lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
Optimize performance and reliability for latency-sensitive components that operate directly in the request path.
Solve portability and integration challenges across different platforms, runtimes, and customer architectures.
Collaborate closely with Product, Security Research, Customer Success Engineering, and other Engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Investigate complex production and customer-integration issues and turn what you learn into product and engineering improvements.

Who you are

4+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a focus on backend or platform engineering.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, including experience building and maintaining production systems with Node.js.
Solid understanding of backend engineering fundamentals, HTTP-based services, APIs, and web infrastructure.
Experience writing clean, testable, and maintainable code and taking ownership of features through production.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and complex technical issues.
Comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively across teams and disciplines.
Curious and adaptable, with an interest in learning new platforms, runtimes, and programming languages.

Nice to have

Experience with content delivery networks such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, or AWS CloudFront.
Familiarity with cloud, serverless, or edge-computing environments.
Experience with one or more additional languages such as Go, Rust, C, or C++.
Deeper knowledge of HTTP, networking, reverse proxies, web servers, or technologies such as NGINX and Kubernetes.
Experience developing SDKs, developer tools, integrations, or software deployed in customer-controlled environments.
Background in cybersecurity, bot mitigation, fraud prevention, or other latency-sensitive security products.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity.

About HUMAN Security

HUMAN was founded in a Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore with a hacker mindset and the lofty mission of making the internet safer by putting humans first. Today, our Human Defense Platform safeguards enterprises from sophisticated bots, fraud, and account abuse, verifying the humanity of more than 20 trillion interactions per week for the world’s biggest brands and internet platforms.

HUMAN is an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to protecting the internet's integrity for everyone. We believe in putting people first, embracing diversity of thought from our global teams, and welcoming all individuals to share their unique experiences as we fight cybercrime together. We support our Humans with a comprehensive total rewards package for personal and professional development, including well-being and learning stipends, flexible work options, and dedicated time off. While our HQ is in NYC, we have teams worldwide.

HUMAN is growing fast, and there’s never been a more meaningful time to join us. If you thrive on solving complex problems and want to help shape the future of cybersecurity, join us as we build a safer, more human internet.

If you are an individual with a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us directly.

Why work at HUMAN

Mission-Driven Culture: The company’s core mission—protecting the integrity of the digital world—unites a global team. Employees describe the work as having “real impact,” not just detecting fraud but helping take down the actors behind it.
Flexible Work Environment: HUMAN offers remote, hybrid, and in-office options across its global offices (New York, Tel Aviv, Santa Clara, Miami). The policy is described as “Remote, Hybrid, Human.”
Investment in Employees: Competitive pay, equity, and benefits. Includes a yearly learning stipend for upskilling, a wellness stipend for physical/mental health, and “HUMAN Days” for community service and giving back.
Culture & Values: The company emphasizes five core values: “Honor the Customer Journey,” “Navigate with Speed,” “Act with Purpose,” “Move as One,” and “Unleash Our Potential.” Employees describe the culture as collaborative, supportive, and mission-driven, with a focus on real impact.
Transparent Hiring Process: The careers page outlines a clear, 5-step process: apply easily, chat with a recruiter, meet the team, show your skills (for technical roles), and final steps (reference check and offer).
Diversity & Inclusion: The company states that diverse backgrounds and perspectives are their greatest strength, and they are guided by diversity of thought while grounded in a common vision.

About HUMAN

Company Overview

One-liner: HUMAN (formerly White Ops) protects the integrity of the digital world by verifying the humanity of over 20 trillion digital interactions per week, safeguarding enterprises from sophisticated bots, fraud, and digital abuse.
Entity Type: Private (Growth Stage)
Headquarters: New York, NY, USA (with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Santa Clara, CA; and Miami, FL)
Founded: 2012
Founders: Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, and Ash Kalb

Core Business

Primary industry: Cybersecurity (Bot Detection, Fraud Prevention, Digital Identity)
Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (large organizations across digital ecosystems, including e-commerce, advertising, financial services, and social platforms)
Mission: To protect the integrity of the digital world by ensuring that every interaction, transaction, and connection is authentic, secure, and human.

Products & Services

HUMAN Defense Platform: An all-in-one, unified platform that delivers speed, scale, and precision to protect organizations from sophisticated bots, fraud, and digital abuse. It examines 2,500+ signals per interaction using 400+ algorithms and adaptive machine learning models to make high-fidelity decisions in milliseconds.
Satori Threat Intelligence & Research: A dedicated team that provides deep threat intelligence to enhance the HUMAN Defense platform, helping to identify and take down the actors behind fraud and abuse.
Bot Detection & Mitigation: The company’s core offering, ranked #1 in G2’s Bot Detection and Mitigation category, verifies the humanity of over 20 trillion digital interactions weekly across 3 billion unique devices.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
Key Metric: Verifies over 20 trillion digital interactions per week; protects 3 billion unique devices; named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024
Notable Investors/Partners: Not explicitly listed on the careers page, but the company has raised significant funding from top-tier venture capital firms (including growth-stage investors). Trusted by organizations across every digital ecosystem.
Growth Signals: Named in Time’s Best Inventions of 2023 (Human Defense Platform); awarded Security-as-a-Service Provider of the Year in 2024; customers rank HUMAN #1 in G2’s Bot Detection and Mitigation Category; named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024.

Competitive Advantages

Unmatched Scale & Telemetry: Verifies over 20 trillion digital interactions weekly across 3 billion unique devices, creating the world’s largest threat network for unrivaled threat intelligence.
Decision Precision & Speed: Analyzes 2,500+ signals per interaction with 400+ algorithms and adaptive ML models, making high-fidelity decisions in milliseconds.
Satori Threat Intelligence: A dedicated, world-class threat intelligence and research team that provides deep insights into botnets and fraud operations, directly feeding the platform’s defenses.
Market Leadership: Ranked #1 in G2’s Bot Detection and Mitigation category and named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024.

Strategic Focus

Agentic AI Innovation: Actively working on Agentic AI to tackle fraud and abuse in new, innovative ways, as noted by team members.
Platform Expansion: Continuing to evolve the unified HUMAN Defense Platform to cover the entire customer journey, from bot detection to broader digital abuse prevention.
Threat Intelligence Leadership: Deepening the capabilities of the Satori Threat Intelligence team to stay ahead of sophisticated, evolving attack methods.

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