R&D Team Lead

Would you like to lead an amazing team that touches the core of our product? Our Data Path group is looking for a Team Lead to get with us to the next level.

Our R&D works in Agile methodology. You will lead a scrum team of ~10 people (Software, QA and Automation Engineers).

Responsibilities:

• Leading end-to-end development of Silk's products and features, from design through implementation, and onto the release of enterprise-level software.
• Solving diverse, complex problems in a unique, scalable, distributed system.
• Working in a highly multithreaded environment with uncompromised performance.
• Analyze and improve performance, scalability and stability of Silk's products, environments, and tools.
• Continuously learn and evaluate new technologies in an ongoing effort to perfect our products.
• We're looking for someone who is both a people-person as well as highly technical and able to dig into an abundance of unknown asynchronous code to find solutions.
  
  

Requirements:

• Managerial experience - at least 2 years as R&D Team Lead.
• Experience in SW development and system-level programming.
• Experience in a Linux working environment.
• Experience in multi-threading and object-oriented programming.
• Experience in C/C++ programming.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills - Hebrew & English.
  
  

Advantages

• Experience with Agile methodology.
• Experience in enterprise storage.
• Experience with distributed systems.
  
  

About Silk:

Silk gives demanding workloads 10x faster performance on the cloud compared to native cloud alone. The Silk Cloud Platform is a virtualization layer that sits between the underlying cloud infrastructure and customers’ workloads. Without refactoring, workloads such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and industry-specific applications can move onto the cloud and massively improve user experience. Industry leaders in e-commerce, software publishing, FinTech, and healthcare, trust Silk with their mission-critical workloads to get the ultra-fast speeds their customers demand. Silk is headquartered in Needham, MA. To learn more, visit https://silk.us/.