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title: 'Tooling Engineer at Cylake, Inc'
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# Tooling Engineer at Cylake, Inc

- **Company:** Cylake, Inc
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cylake-inc/be8e876f-81ca-4e76-8878-1b856bd1ec82

## Job description

## Your Impact

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.

## Role Overview

You will be responsible for deploying, maintaining, and scaling the core engineering project management and tooling platforms, primarily centered around GitLab. This includes architecting comprehensive CI/CD pipelines, managing centralized artifact registries, and deploying critical SAST and code quality tooling. You will have the opportunity to establish the foundational development standards and automation frameworks from the ground up to support the rapid delivery of secure products.

Required Experience

- 5+ years of experience deploying, configuring, and managing GitLab (or similar) in production environments, including stress testing and validating backup and restore procedures
- Strong expertise in designing and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines, including umbrella pipelines that trigger container builds, Helm packaging, and RPM builds
- Experience deploying and integrating SAST tools (such as Coverity or Semgrep) and image vulnerability scanning directly into automated pipelines
- Proficiency in setting up and managing artifact registries, including container registries, Helm chart repositories, and RPM repositories
- Experience establishing development environment standards, including branch strategies, conventional commits, code review standards, and pre-commit hooks
- Experience configuring CI/CD pipelines for cross-compilation (Windows, Linux, macOS) and project scaffolding, such as Rust workspaces
- Familiarity with integrating test automation, such as configuring QEMU/KVM boot testing within CI pipelines
- Experience with build signing and secret management (e.g., Vault integration, Microsoft ELAM/PPL registration) is a plus
- Experience building ML specialization pipelines (model distillation, pruning, or quantization) is a plus

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and long-term success. The expected salary range for this position is $150,000 – $250,000 per year. Within this range, individual pay is determined based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and internal equity. Most candidates can expect an offer within the range listed above. Your recruiter will provide additional details on compensation and benefits to qualified candidates during the hiring process.

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’re happy to support you.

## About Cylake, Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cylake is building a complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform for the world’s largest and most regulated institutions, designed to operate on-premises or in private cloud environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $45M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2026
- **Founders**: Nir Zuk, Wilson Xu, and Ehud (Udi) Shamir

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cybersecurity (Computer and Network Security)
- **Target customers**: Large, highly regulated institutions (e.g., in finance, government, critical infrastructure) that require data and operational sovereignty.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To support organizations and enterprises that need sovereign, complete, and transparent agentic protection against cyberattacks” and “to bring cybersecurity back home for organizations that require complete sovereignty.”

## Products & Services
- **[Cylake Platform]**: A complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform built on a single data foundation. It combines hardware and software components to deliver deep analysis and agentic protection without relying on public cloud or public AI infrastructure. Currently under development with design partners, planned for general availability in early 2027.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$45M** (Seed round, March 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: **Greylock Partners** (lead investor); founding investor Asheem Chandna (Partner at Greylock) sits on the board.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+23.5% monthly in early data); team of experienced security engineers and executives from Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, and other leading security firms; already 5,793 LinkedIn followers with 12.8% monthly growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team**: Co-founded by Nir Zuk (former CEO/Chairman of Palo Alto Networks), along with seasoned security architects.
- **Data sovereignty**: Platform operates entirely on-premises or in private cloud, avoiding reliance on public cloud infrastructure – a critical requirement for regulated industries.
- **Single data lake**: All security data unified into one data store, enabling complete visibility and agentic automation.
- **Strong investor backing**: $45M seed from top-tier VC Greylock Partners signals confidence and resources.

## Strategic Focus
- Complete platform development (hardware + software + applied AI) with design partners.
- Targeting general availability in early 2027.
- Building an in-office engineering culture centered on long-term architecture, intense collaboration, and deep technical craftsmanship.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Human intelligence first” with a focus on creative thinking, open communication, and pride in work. In-office approach at Sunnyvale HQ (525 Almanor Ave).
- **Team**: Small (10 employees) but highly experienced – a chance to work alongside former executives and engineers from top security companies.
- **Impact**: Early-stage opportunity to build a foundational cybersecurity platform from the ground up.
- **Engineering focus**: Roles span hardware, software, data, and applied AI. Openings include Security Researcher, Endpoint Engineer, Backend Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Frontend UI Engineer, and Product Manager.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed; note: no external recruiting agency accepts candidates.

## Sources
1. [cylake.com](https://cylake.com/about-us/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/cylake-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cylake-ai/jobs)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cylake-inc](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cylake-inc)

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