Backend Team Lead - Cyber Infrastructure Team

Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity!

As a leader in Automated Security Validation, we help businesses around the world safely emulate real-world attacks to uncover their vulnerabilities. At Pentera, you will be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, working on advanced tools that challenge organizations' defenses and push the limits of security testing.

With over 400 team members and 1,100+ customers in more than 50 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors like Insight Partners, K1, and The Blackstone Group.

If you are looking to grow your skills, make a difference, and be part of an innovative team, Pentera is the place for you.

About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced Backend Team Lead to lead our Cyber Infrastructure Team, a group of senior engineers and architects building backend services and platform foundations within Pentera’s Autonomous Hacking platform. This is a hands-on leadership role, you will set technical direction, coach senior talent, and still write production code.

You’ll work closely with product, research, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, secure systems, from design to production.

Roles And Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of backend platform components and services, owning features end-to-end from architecture and design to production rollout and ongoing operations.
• Provide technical leadership for a senior team, drive design reviews, engineering standards, mentoring, and healthy, high-performing team culture.
• Own technical planning and execution, translate product and platform needs into an executable roadmap, and deliver with predictable quality and velocity.
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems, event-driven and microservices-based solutions, balancing scale, reliability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, security research, and QA to define requirements, ship new capabilities, and continuously improve quality.
• Establish engineering best practices, code reviews, testing, documentation, observability, incident analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and growing the team over time.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on backend software development experience, strong coding ability in Java and or Python.
• 3+ years of proven team leadership experience, leading experienced engineers, ideally in a mid-sized or scaling company.
• Demonstrated technical authority, comfortable making architecture decisions, influencing peers, and aligning stakeholders.
• Proven track record building and operating scalable distributed systems and microservices in production.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers (Docker), messaging (RabbitMQ or similar), and databases (MongoDB or equivalent).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, ability to lead senior people through alignment, clarity, and execution, including navigating challenging conversations.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience tackling performance, reliability, and optimization challenges in production systems.
• Background in cybersecurity products, attack simulation, exposure management, or security tooling ecosystems.
• Experience with streaming and data processing frameworks (for example Flink), and event-driven architectures at scale.
• Strong sense of ownership, from architecture through delivery and operational excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join us!