Platform Software Engineering Team Leader

Description:

Company Overview:

Cellebrite’s (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to enable its global customers to protect and save lives by enhancing digital investigations and intelligence gathering to accelerate justice in communities around the world. Cellebrite’s AI-powered Digital Investigation Platform enables customers to lawfully access, collect, analyze and share digital evidence in legally sanctioned investigations while preserving data privacy. Thousands of public safety organizations, intelligence agencies and businesses rely on Cellebrite’s digital forensic and investigative solutions-available via cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments-to close faster and safeguard communities.

To learn more, visit us at www.cellebrite.com, https://investors.cellebrite.com/investors and find us on social media @Cellebrite.

Position Overview 

As a Platform Engineering Team Leader with a strong backend orientation, you will lead a team responsible for architecting, building, and operating the core platform that enables rapid deployment, experimentation, and scaling of advanced AI capabilities. 

In this role, you will combine hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high standards of engineering excellence. Your work will bridge cutting-edge research with reliable, secure, high-performance systems powering the next generation of digital intelligence products. 

Responsibilities 

• Own the technical vision of the platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability 
• Lead the design and development of backend services and APIs for SaaS applications using Node.js and TypeScript (or Python where appropriate) 
• Architect and oversee microservices and distributed systems optimized for production scale 
• Drive cloud-native architecture using AWS services and Kubernetes (EKS) 
• Define best practices for infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm 

Team Leadership & Delivery 

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of platform engineers 
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, design reviews, and code reviews 
• Plan and execute work in an agile environment 
• Collaborate closely with research, product, security, and engineering teams 

Requirements 

• 8+ years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience 
• At least 3 years of experience leading engineering teams 
• Strong experience balancing hands-on development with leadership responsibilities 
• Experience mentoring senior and mid-level engineers and supporting their technical growth 
• Ability to set engineering standards, best practices, and coding guidelines across the team 
• Experience working closely with product, research, security, and DevOps/SRE teams 
• Strong understanding of operational excellence, including incident management, on-call practices, and post-mortems 
• Proven expertise in: Backend development (Node.js / Python preferred), Microservices and distributed architectures, Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure), API design and integration, Performance optimization and system scalability 
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services 
• Experience with Go (Golang) is an advantage 
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or related field 
• Strong leadership and communication skills