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title: 'Senior Python Engineer at D-Fend Solutions'
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# Senior Python Engineer at D-Fend Solutions

- **Company:** D-Fend Solutions
- **Location:** Raanana, Israel
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/d-fendsolutions/6d4b3594-576b-4f36-9863-fd84b7cebe38

## Job description

At D-Fend Solutions, our people are our greatest strength — and technology is our passion. Our team of innovators and subject matter experts, including veterans of elite military intelligence technology units, is transforming the way organizations protect themselves from drone threats.

As the global leader in cyber-takeover counter-drone technology, we design and deliver advanced, software-defined solutions that empower our customers to detect, take control, and safely land unauthorized drones — with precision and reliability.

Every day, we push the boundaries of innovation to meet real-world security challenges across industries and environments. We’re proud of our cutting-edge technology, our global reach, and the impact we make in securing the skies.

We’re seeking passionate professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, creative, and collaborative environment — those who want to be part of the next generation of airspace security innovation.

Join D-Fend Solutions and help make the world a safer place. Become a D-Fender! Work with the world’s leading cyber-takeover counter-drone technology provider and shape the future of safe airspace.

Scope: As a Senior Python Engineer, you will play a key role in the development of our cutting-edge solutions to detect, track and mitigate drones.

Your primary responsibility will be to successfully implement real-time, multi-core, and multi-threaded software tasks and continuously develop new features and capabilities for an up-to-date response to new drone models and components, while collaborating  with our algorithms and radio-frequency (RF) engineers.

This includes coding over a Linux platform, primarily in user space, with a rich and fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) platform. In addition, you will implement Scrum and Agile methodologies in your tasks, while taking features from the early requirement stage through design, implementation, integration, and then handing it over  to our validation team.

Requirements:

- At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience in Python  – A MUST
- Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented (OO) programming - A MUST
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or Engineering, or relevant military courses and experience
- Team player, with strong communication, collaboration, active listening, and problem-solving skills
- Proven experience developing real-time stream processing solutions
- Agile/Scrum environment expertise

Advantages:

- Proven experience in C++ development
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, including automation concepts
- Multi-process/threaded application knowledge
- Extensive startup experience
- Knowledge of Networking and Operating Systems fundamentals

## About D-Fend Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: D-Fend Solutions is the leading provider of RF cyber-driven, non-kinetic, AI-enhanced counter-drone takeover technology that detects, takes over, and safely lands rogue drones in sensitive environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded)
- **Headquarters**: Ra'anana, Israel (with presence in the US, UK, and Japan)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Counter-drone / Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) defense technology; classified under Defense and Space Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2G and B2B — military, homeland security, law enforcement, airports, prisons, critical infrastructure operators, and major event organizers
- **Mission**: "To lead in providing the most advanced technology and solutions to overcome rogue drone threats in our customers' most sensitive environments and airspace, in a controlled manner that enables continuity." [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **EnforceAir**: Core counter-drone system that autonomously executes RF cyber-takeovers of rogue drones. It detects, locates, and identifies threats in protected airspace, then neutralizes them via non-kinetic, non-jamming RF takeover for safe landings and controlled outcomes. Deployable as a standalone, multilayer, or integrated system, and enhanced with AI capabilities. [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $65M across 4 rounds — Seed (Nov 2017), Series A ($6M, May 2018), Series B ($28M, Sep 2019), and Series C ($31M, Dec 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Israel Growth Partners (led Series C), Claridge Israel (led Series B); LinkedIn company data lists Motorola Solutions, Inc. as parent company
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 193 employees (+25.1% YoY, +45 people); workforce distributed across 8 countries including Israel, US, Canada, Netherlands, and Singapore; hundreds of deployments worldwide; designated best-in-class and deployed by top-tier U.S. and international government agencies, major international airports, and large-scale events [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/d-fend-solutions)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category pioneer**: Creator of the RF Cyber Takeover counter-drone category — a non-kinetic, non-jamming approach that avoids collateral damage and operational disruption, unlike kinetic or jamming alternatives
- **Field-proven credibility**: Chosen as best-in-class by military, federal law enforcement, and homeland security units, plus major international airports and VIP protection details
- **AI-enhanced detection**: Combines RF cyber technology with AI to autonomously detect, prioritize, and mitigate drone threats
- **Multi-disciplinary R&D**: Engineering team includes personnel from elite military intelligence technology units, enabling deep expertise in both cyber and drone domains [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/about-us/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Staying ahead of emerging threats**: Continuously innovating to counter next-generation drone technologies and evolving tactics
- **Sector expansion**: Growing across military, public safety, airport, prison, major event, and critical infrastructure markets
- **Next-generation development**: Proactively building capabilities for future drone threats, with a risk-based approach that analyzes drone prevalence, payload capacity, and range [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly protect sensitive environments — from forward-operating bases and borders to stadiums and airports — from rogue drone threats
- **Elite technical culture**: R&D team draws from elite military intelligence technology units, with specialized expertise across RF, hardware, system engineering, and drone operations
- **Global reach**: Distributed team across 8 countries, with an on-site presence in Ra'anana, Israel, and offices in the US, UK, and Japan
- **Current openings** (27 total

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