--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Orca Security' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-orca-security-tel-aviv-yafo-8w9vw9pnsat5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Software Engineer at Orca Security - **Company:** Orca Security - **Location:** Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - **Posted:** 2024-08-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://orca.security/about/careers/5263129004?gh_jid=5263129004 ## Job description Big Ideas. Real People. At Orca, in the right environment and with the right team, talent has no boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to always aim high, has quickly earned us unicorn status and turned us into a global cloud security innovation leader. So if you’re ready to join an amazing team of people who inspire each other every day, now is the time to find your place in our pod. We’re looking for driven and talented people like you to join our R&D team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. Ready to dive in and swim with our pod? Highlights: - High-growth: Over the past seven years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities. - Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company. - Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence. - Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry. About the Role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the KSPM team at Orca Security, you will join a mission-critical group building and scaling one of the company’s core and fastest-growing security products. Our team enables customers to secure their Kubernetes environments across every major cloud provider, delivering deep visibility into cluster misconfigs, RBAC risk, admission control, compliance drift and container vulnerabilities. In this role you will design the backend services and data models that discover, onboard, scan, and represent K8s workloads, APIs, and configurations at scale. You will own core services end-to-end, drive architectural improvements and partner with security researchers to turn complex threat vectors into actionable insights. We are looking for backend engineers who care deeply about software design, cloud-native infrastructure, and container security. This is a high-impact role with real ownership - lead features end-to-end, mentor teammates, and help shape the technical direction of Orca’s KSPM offering. Our Stack: Python, Go, K8s APIs, K8s ecosystem tooling (OPA/Gatekeeper, admission controllers), Docker & container runtimes, SingleStore, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, SQS, ElasticSearch, AWS, GCP, Azure. What You'll Do: - Design & build at scale: Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services that discover, onboard, scan, and analyze Kubernetes environments across multi-cloud and managed clusters. - Model K8s security: Map and represent Kubernetes resources as clean data models that surface misconfigurations, exposure risks, and compliance violations. - Integrate detection engines: Integrate and evolve detection engines for container vulnerabilities, secrets, RBAC risks, misconfigurations, and compliance frameworks. - Collaborate on research & product: Partner with security researchers and product managers to translate novel findings and complex requirements into impactful features. - Design for quality: Write clean, well-tested code in Python or Go, with thoughtful abstractions and APIs that keep the system correct and maintainable as it grows. - Lead & mentor: Lead design discussions and code reviews that uphold high engineering and security standards across the team. - Own it end-to-end: Own features through their full lifecycle - from technical specification and design through implementation, testing, and release. What You Bring: - 6+ years of professional software development experience. - Hands on experience with Python or Go - Must. - Strong background building microservices, cloud native services, and distributed systems that handle large scale workloads. - Deep understanding of software design principles, concurrency models, data structures, and algorithms. - Solid familiarity with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerized workflows (Docker, container runtimes). - Self-driven and proactive, comfortable taking a complex technical challenge e2e. - Excellent communicator with a team-first mindset that thrives in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. Bonus Points if You Have: - Practical experience with Kubernetes internals, API primitives, custom controllers/operators, and managed services (EKS, GKE, AKS). - Prior domain knowledge in cloud security, KSPM, CSPM, or vulnerability management. ## #LI-ORCA ## About Orca Security ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Orca Security is the pioneer of agentless cloud security, providing a comprehensive Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that identifies, prioritizes, and remediates security risks and compliance issues across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; total funding $632M; valuation $1.8B as of 2025) - **Headquarters**: Portland, Oregon, United States (with additional offices in London, UK and Tel Aviv, Israel) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Gil Geron (CEO & Co-Founder), Avi Shua (Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cloud Security / Cybersecurity (CNAPP, agentless cloud security) - **Target customers**: B2B, primarily mid-market to large enterprises across all cloud environments - **Mission statement**: “Empower people and organizations to thrive securely in the cloud.” ## Products & Services - **[Orca Cloud Security Platform](https://orca.security/)**: A unified agentless platform that provides full visibility into cloud assets, prioritizes risks using a patented Unified Data Model, and offers AI-driven remediation (AI Code Fixes, AI Discovery, AI Assistant, AI agents). Includes compliance checks against 200+ frameworks, DevSecOps integration (CI/CD, code reachability), and real-time threat detection via the lightweight eBPF-based **Orca Sensor**. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: $1.8 billion (unicorn status, as stated on [orca.security/about](https://orca.security/about/)) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $110M (per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orca-security)); Total Funding $632M across 5 rounds (Seed, Series A, B, and two Series C rounds) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: CapitalG, Redpoint, Temasek Holdings, YL Ventures, Notable Capital, ICONIQ Capital. AWS Global Security Partner of the Year (2022). - **Growth Signals**: 388 employees (+13.1% YoY); recognized on CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, CRN AI 100, GigaOm Leader for CNAPP (2025); FedRAMP Moderate Authorized; SOC 2 Type II certified. ## Competitive Advantages - **Agentless SideScanning™ technology** (patented) – deploys in minutes without agents, giving instant visibility across all cloud workloads. - **Unified Data Model** – correlates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identities, secrets, and data to surface only the most critical attack paths. - **Three types of reachability analysis** (container-level, dynamic runtime, code-level) – eliminates up to 90% of alert noise by focusing on exploitable risks. - **AI-native platform** – AI agents accelerate analysis, generate code fixes, and reduce false positives, enabling security teams to operate efficiently without scaling headcount. ## Strategic Focus - Deepening AI capabilities across the platform (AI agents for analysis, remediation, and triage). - Expanding real-time cloud detection and response (Orca Sensor for runtime protection). - Consolidating AppSec tools (SAST, SCA, secrets detection) into a single platform to reduce toolchain complexity. - Maintaining compliance leadership with continuous updates to regulatory frameworks. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes inclusivity, collaboration, authenticity, creativity, and communication. Referred to internally as “the Pod.” - **Recognition**: Rated one of the best high-tech companies to work for; employer rating 4.2/5 on LinkedIn (based on 128 reviews). - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence across Portland, Tel Aviv, London, and Brazil. Open roles in R&D (Software Engineer, Head of Research, Senior Software Engineer), Customer Success, Finance, and Sales. - **Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud security technology with a mission-driven team; fast-paced growth environment with significant impact on the cloud security landscape. ## Sources 1. [orca.security](https://orca.security/) 2. [orca.security/about](https://orca.security/about/) 3. [orca.security/about/careers](https://orca.security/about/careers/) 4. [orca.security/about/why-orca](https://orca.security/about/why-orca/) 5. 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