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# Director Platform/Backend Engineering at Balbix

- **Company:** Balbix
- **Location:** Delhi, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/balbix/338cd36d-e23c-4a08-976b-3298cb74f8cf

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE

Balbix is the world's leading platform for cybersecurity posture automation. Using Balbix, organizations can discover, prioritize and mitigate unseen risks and vulnerabilities at high velocity. With seamless data collection and petabyte-scale analysis capabilities, Balbix is deployed and operational within hours, and helps to decrease breach risk immediately.

Balbix counts many global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. We are backed by John Chambers (the former CEO and Chairman of Cisco), top Silicon Valley VCs and global investors. We have been called magical, and have received raving reviews as well as customer testimonials, numerous industry awards, and recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, and by Frost & Sullivan.

As a Director you will lead, build and own complex data pipelines dealing with petabytes of data and manage applications with distributed systems. Balbix platform is used as one of the critical security tools by the CIOs, CISOs, and the sec-ops teams of small, medium and large sized enterprises including Fortune 10 companies around the world. You will solve problems related to massive cybersecurity and IT data sets. You will collaborate closely with cross functional teams to solve real-world problems plaguing cybersecurity.

You Will :

- Lead the definition, design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of the backend/api platform
- Build a cross-functional team of engineers in delivering backend for distributed applications
- Establish development processes and best practices for backend engineering and be the change agent to foster innovation and improve developer productivity
- Effectively track and manage changing priorities to bring clarity in priorities and balance long term projects with critical/urgent customer issues
- Establish technical vision for backend product teams to meet strategic needs of Balbix and own end to end delivery and implementation plans
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, vendors, auditors and regulators
- Deliver scalable, performant and highly secure architecture that meets current and future business needs of products with a keen eye for COGS
- Actively mentor Principal and Senior engineers to develop and groom talent

You Are :

- Able to take on very complex problems, learn quickly, iterate, and persevere toward a robust solution
- Passionate about building truly usable and scalable systems
- Collaborative and comfortable working across teams including data engineering, front end, product management, and DevOps
- Responsible and like to take ownership of challenging problems
- A good communicator, and facilitates teamwork via good documentation practices
- Comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in designing algorithms for evolving needs
- Intuitive in using the right type of designs to address different product needs
- Curious about the world and your profession, and are a constant learner

You Have :

- PhD, Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in computer science
- 12+ years of software development experience with at least 5 years of focus in frameworks/platform development
- 5+ years of experience of managing development teams across different geographies on complex customer facing data-driven applications
- 5+ years of experience in setting up effective development processes and mechanisms to deliver products
- 5+ years experience in design, architecture and development of complex distributed systems and frameworks
- 5+ years of programming experience in at least one language such as Java, C++, Go, Rust, Python etc
- 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience working with product managers to develop short term and  long term product roadmaps
- Commitment to building and mentoring inclusive teams and team culture
- Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capability and a pragmatic approach to business
- Experience navigating through ambiguity of complex and dynamic customer needs while building a platform with high availability and scale
- Strong communications skills to engage with cross functional teams, executives and customers

Life @ Balbix At Balbix, we have built a culture that aligns to our values of ownership, customer focus, curiosity, tenacity, innovation, judgement, teamwork, communication, honesty and impact. In joining our team you’ll work with very motivated and knowledgeable people, build pioneering products and utilize cutting-edge technology. Our Balbix team members see rapid career growth opportunities stemming from our culture of alignment, bottom up innovation, our clarity of goals and unrelenting mission. Last but not least, developing the world's most advanced platform to address what the most important (and hardest) technology problem facing mankind today is exceptionally rewarding!

More information at https://www.balbix.com/company/careers/

Please reach out if you want a seat on our rocket-ship and are passionate about changing the cybersecurity equation.

## About Balbix

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Balbix provides an AI-native platform for cyber risk and exposure management, helping enterprises reduce breach risk by unifying data from security and IT systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Safe Security in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States (additional office in Gurugram, India)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Gaurav Banga (founder and former CEO, left April 2026)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security / Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise (finance & banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy & utilities, healthcare)
- **Mission**: Provide every organization with a comprehensive, real-time view of breach risk along with prioritized insights and integrations to transform cybersecurity posture.

## Products & Services
- **Balbix BreachControl™**: AI-powered SaaS platform for exposure management, cyber risk quantification, asset inventory, and application security risk management. Continuously discovers on-prem, cloud, and mobile assets; analyzes 100+ attack vectors; and provides prioritized remediation actions.
- **BIX GenAI Security Assistant**: An AI assistant that delivers instant, evidence-backed answers to board, executive, and auditor questions about cyber risk.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$5.3M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding $101.6M (Series A: $8.6M led by Mayfield Fund, 2017; Series B: $23M led by Singtel Innov8, 2018; Series C: $70M led by Redline Capital, 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mayfield Fund, Singtel Innov8, Redline Capital
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount declined 64.3% YoY to 44 employees (likely due to acquisition); still posting 11 open positions. Acquired by Safe Security in November 2025 to create an agentic-AI cyber risk system. Named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" and ranked #32 on Deloitte Fast 500 North America (2021).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Unifies data from 150+ security and IT systems into a real-time view of assets and exposures.
- **Automated asset discovery**: Customers typically discover 15–35% more assets than they thought they had after deploying Balbix.
- **Risk quantification in dollars**: Enables CISOs to communicate cyber risk to boards, insurers, and regulators in business terms.
- **Continuous prioritization**: Analyzes exploitability, blast radius, and business impact to focus on the most critical exposures.

## Strategic Focus
- Integration with Safe Security to deliver a unified agentic-AI cyber risk platform.
- Continued development of AI/ML capabilities (LLM systems, data lakehouse, DevOps automation) to improve exposure management and risk quantification.
- Serving enterprise customers in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, energy).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Startup energy with helpful coworkers, ping-pong, happy hours, no micro-management, and flexible hours (from employee reviews). However, recent founder and VP Engineering departures indicate a transition period post-acquisition.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: On-site workspaces at HQ in San Jose and office in Gurugram. Some roles (e.g., AI/ML Architect) are listed as "Hybrid – Full-Time Delhi NCR"; others are "On-site" or "Full-Time".
- **Perks & Benefits**: Company equity, performance bonuses, diversity initiatives.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on AI/ML, LLM systems (LangGraph & Bedrock), data lakehouse, DevOps, and backend engineering. Open roles include AI/ML Architect, Staff AI Engineer, Technical Team Lead – LLM Systems, and Principal DevOps Engineer.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/balbix) – Company details, headcount, revenue, funding, open positions
2. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/balbix) – Products, competitors, acquisition by Safe Security
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/balbix) – Careers, perks, locations
4. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Balbix) – Employee reviews, revenue range
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/balbix) – Active job postings (AI/ML Architect, DevOps, etc.)

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