Senior Systems Engineer (Windows) at Confluera (Pune, India)

Confluera· Pune, India·4d ago

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Job description

Senior Systems Engineer (Windows)

Role Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a software platform that exposes Windows security instrumentation information. Publishes information for consumption by a distributed system. Performance analysis and high unit test coverage on software.

Job Requirements Proficient in C, C++. Strong understanding of Windows OS internals. Able to write high quality, test code.

Bonus Qualification Security background, malware detection, etc. Familiar with Golang.

Education/Qualifications BA/BS or MA/MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

Why work at Confluera

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).

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: 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.

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