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title: 'Front-End Engineer at Confluera'
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# Front-End Engineer at Confluera

- **Company:** Confluera
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2020-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/confluera/8822aa1d-b2b8-475b-b5a4-014fb77604da

## Job description

Front-End Engineer at Confluera

Description:

- Looking for a seasoned javascript programmer with strong experience in building large enterprise web applications using the latest technology
- Analyze requirements, perform detailed design and hands-on development for scalable applications using Python Flask, JavaScript, Postgres and related technologies.
- Develop new code and/or lead existing code changes as part of a group effort
- Build libraries, reusable components and frameworks that support complex web applications
- Rapid development with automation in mind, and able to deliver results in a fast-paced environment
- Able to complete projects with minimal supervision and direction
- Review work for accuracy, quality, performance and completeness including other developers codeTechnical
- Strong experience developing web application using Python Flask, JavaScript frameworks like VueJS (preferred) Angular, React or equivalent, and Postgres or MySQL
- REST API development to support UI applications.
- Unit Testing frameworks in Python, and Javascript domain
- Javascript Build systems like WebPack , Babel , CSS Loaders, Module Systems
- Git and NPM
- Building large scale Responsive applications using CSS3 and Less/Sass
- Experience with performance tuning application code
- Experience with data-driven web development, including strong knowledge of JSON
- Extensive use of APIs and deep understanding of HTTP and REST architecture.
- Experience in developing secure web applications and knowledge of application vulnerabilities such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), etc.

Non-Technical:

- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to multi-task
- To be successful you are self-motivated; driven to achieve and exceed expectations

Qualifications:

- 5+ Years Frontend Engineering Experience
- You’ve had hands-on experience with Python web frameworks like Flask or Django
- You’ve had hands-on experience with JavaScript UI frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS, or VueJS.
- You understand frontend challenges like application state management and asynchronous JavaScript programming.
- You are excited by making fast user experiences and enjoy tackling ambiguous performance problems.
- You’ve introduced new technologies to an existing codebase in a logical and deliberate manner.
- You’ve worked with APIs, having to build them from scratch or augment existing ones as needed.
- You have strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, etc. and have strong empathy for your customers.

## About Confluera

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Confluera provides an autonomous detection and response (CxDR) platform that uses a patented Continuous Attack Graph to track and stop cyberattacks across cloud infrastructure in real time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by XM Cyber in March 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016 (some sources list 2019; conflicting reports)
- **Founders**: Bipul Sinha (co-founder/chairman), Niloy Mukherjee, Abhijit Ghosh (co-founder/CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – Cloud Detection and Response (CxDR / XDR)
- **Target customers**: B2B – security operations teams (SecOps), DevOps, and cloud infrastructure teams in enterprises and mid-market organizations
- **Mission**: “Deliver real-time infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging ‘Continuous Attack Graph’ to deterministically stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time.”

## Products & Services
- **[Confluera CxDR Platform](https://www.confluera.com/)**: A cloud-native extended detection and response platform that ingests telemetry from workloads, control plane, and data plane layers, then builds a Continuous Attack Graph to create real-time Attack Storyboards. It reduces alert noise by up to 98% and accelerates investigation time by 10x. Key capabilities include automated threat storyboarding, incident response automation, and integration with SIEMs, CWPPs, EDRs, and CSPMs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by XM Cyber; terms not public)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $29M raised over 2 rounds (Series A and Series B led by Icon Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Icon Ventures (lead), with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ravi Mhatre, and angel investors. Post-acquisition, parent company XM Cyber provides additional channel and partnership reach.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired by XM Cyber (March 2023) to strengthen XM Cyber’s cloud detection and response capabilities. Employee count reported as 6 as of May 2026 (Tracxn) but likely integrated into XM Cyber’s larger team. The company’s technology is used to intercept zero-day and insider attacks across multi-cloud/hybrid environments.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Patented Continuous Attack Graph**: Causally stitches events in real-time (not after-the-fact correlation), enabling deterministic tracking of attack chains across cloud infrastructure.
- **Deep cloud observability**: Covers workload, control plane, and data plane layers, providing context that traditional EDR/XDR tools miss.
- **Noise reduction**: Distills thousands of alerts into a handful of high-risk Attack Storyboards, dramatically reducing false positives.
- **Real-time response**: Provides in-context response recommendations and automated investigation timelines, cutting mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) significantly.

## Strategic Focus
- **Post-acquisition integration**: Under XM Cyber, Confluera’s technology is being embedded into a broader exposure management and cyber posture platform.
- **Cloud-native expansion**: Continued focus on multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with emphasis on tracking lateral movement, container escapes, and identity-based attacks.
- **Partner ecosystem**: Leveraging XM Cyber’s existing channel and MSSP relationships to scale adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Confluera emphasizes a fast-paced, engineering-driven environment focused on solving hard cloud security problems. The team is small (historically ~18 employees) but tightly integrated with XM Cyber post-acquisition.
- **Location**: Office in Palo Alto, CA. Employees work from the physical office (on-site policy reported by Built In).
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, stock options (likely through XM Cyber), 401k, premium insurance, and free gourmet food.
- **Engineering culture**: Deep technical challenges in real-time graph processing, cloud telemetry, and ML-based anomaly detection. Opportunity to work on patented, cutting-edge detection technology.
- **Job seekers note**: As an acquired company, roles may be under XM Cyber’s umbrella. Check current openings on their careers page (Lever).

## Sources
1. [confluera.com – Careers](https://www.confluera.com/careers)
2. [confluera.com – Home](https://www.confluera.com/)
3. [confluera.com – Team](https://www.confluera.com/team)
4. [builtin.com – Confluera Profile](https://builtin.com/company/confluera)
5. [tracxn.com – Confluera Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/confluera/__-vDEUMX4rQ_spqU_nyCA9e9VMtsf1BIOiBlxcC8b4FE)

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