Staff Engineer - CTO Office

Big Ideas. Real People.

At Orca, in the right environment and with the right team, talent has no boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to always aim high, has 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 like you to join our R&D team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?

Highlights:

High-growth: Over the past six years, we've consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we've significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.

Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn't work for the cloud—so they set out to carve a new path. We're relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.

Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We're backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.

Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

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.
  
  

• 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.