Software Engineer (Backend) at Confluera (Palo Alto, CA)

Confluera· Palo Alto, CA·4d ago

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Software Engineer (Backend) Confluera is a Series B funded cybersecurity startup on a mission to secure our cyberworld by protecting the foundation of our enterprises today, to better our tomorrow. We bring an integral solution to enterprises of all sizes to give visibility into the cloud and instill confidence in our cybersecurity leaders by leveraging the ability to intercept and stop attacks in real-time.

Some of the Role Responsibilities -Building distributed systems processing large volumes of data. -Design, develop and maintain APIs, systems to enable the product in a scalable fashion. -Building models and features to enhance anomaly detection. -Work & Communicate with Product, Design and Other Engineering teams. -Develop and iterate fast, maintaining a high quality bar.

Job Requirements -Programming languages needed: Java, Python -Familiarity with streaming platforms such as Kafka. -Familiarity with stream processing systems such as spark. -Familiarity with distributed systems.

Bonus Qualifications -Experience working on streaming and stream processing systems such as kafka, spark etc. -Experience building ETL pipelines. -Have experience working with distributed systems. -Have delivered a production system on a large scale and has experience maintaining it. -Leadership experience

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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