Staff Engineer

Dive right in. Swim with our pod.

At Orca, we believe that in the right environment and with the right team, talent has no boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to always aim, have quickly earned us unicorn status and turned us into a global cloud security innovation leader. So if you’re ready to join an amazing team of people who inspire each other every day, now is the time to find your place in our pod.

We’re looking for driven and talented people to join our team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. At Orca, we’re proud of what we do and we always aim high.

Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?

Highlights:

● Fast growth: This company has momentum. It’s THE opportune time to join Orca Security.

● Disruptive technology: Orca Security completely changed the way cloud is secured and is leading a new approach of how security solutions should be built. It’s completely agentless and detects every important risk in the cloud environment down to the data layer. It’s fast, simple and complete.

● Well-capitalized: Total funding is almost $630MM in less than 24 months. CapitalG, Redpoint, GGV, YL Ventures, and SVCI. SVCI is a syndicate of CISOs who invested their own money after careful due diligence.

About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join our CTO Office, focusing squarely on engineering excellence and platform scalability. You’ll partner with senior technical leaders to define best practices, design and validate scalable architectures, and build the frameworks and automation that enable our teams to deliver reliable, high-performance products at scale.

On a typical day, you’ll:

• Architect for scale & reliability: Design, review and validate core platform components to support rapid growth in traffic, data volume, and feature velocity.
• Elevate engineering standards: Define and evangelize coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, and observability practices.
• Lead reviews & mentor: Conduct regular architecture and code reviews; coach senior engineers and drive continual improvement across teams.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with product, security, and infrastructure teams to align on non-functional requirements (reliability, latency, throughput).
• Build tooling & automation: Identify workflow gaps and develop internal tools or frameworks to automate testing, deployment, monitoring, and remediation.
• Monitor & optimize: Analyze system metrics, troubleshoot production incidents, and recommend performance and reliability improvements.
• Prototype & validate: Run targeted proof-of-concepts focused on operational excellence—benchmark solutions and recommend adoption plans.

About You:

• Deep systems expertise: 8+ years building large scale distributed or cloud native services, with hands on experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, and API design.
• Proven impact: Demonstrable track record of driving significant performance, reliability, or scalability improvements in production environments.
• Hands-on leadership: You write code, debug complex issues, and prototype solutions alongside your peers—and you set the bar for craftsmanship.
• Standards & tooling advocate: Passionate about CI/CD, test automation, observability, and incident post-mortem culture.
• Excellent communicator: Able to translate deep technical topics into clear recommendations for engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Autonomous & strategic: Self-directed with a strong internal compass; you balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health and roadmap vision.
• Service-minded collaborator: Humble, approachable, and eager to uplift teams through mentorship and shared best practices.

If you’re driven by building rock solid platforms that scale to millions of users and take pride in engineering craftsmanship, we’d love to hear from you!