Platform Team Lead

Company Description

Stream.Security is a recognized leader in modern security operations and was named a Gartner 2024 Cool Vendor for Modern SecOps. The organization focuses on leveraging data-driven solutions to combat advanced AI-based threats tailored to cloud environments. Employing its innovative CloudTwin technology, Stream.Security restores missing context to empower AI-driven detection and response strategies. The company is at the forefront of empowering businesses to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

Role Description

As the Platform Team Leader at Stream Security, you will own the backbone of our cloud-native security platform. You’ll lead a hands-on team responsible for building and operating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that empowers our R&D teams to move fast and safely. This role blends technical excellence with people leadership, offering a unique opportunity to shape both the platform and the team at a pivotal stage of the company’s growth.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow Stream Security’s Platform team, combining hands-on technical leadership with mentorship, hiring, and people development.
• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of the company’s platform infrastructure, with direct impact on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with Product and R&D to define platform requirements and deliver secure, production-grade solutions.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of platform delivery, including architecture, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness.
• Ensure high availability and operational excellence through monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Build internal platforms and tooling that enable engineering and customer-facing teams to move fast and safely.

Requirements -Must

• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, give clear feedback, influence without authority, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• 1+ years of experience leading or managing a Platform / DevOps team in a startup or fast-paced environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Platform / DevOps engineer operating production systems.
• 1+ years of software development experience using a high-level language (Python or Go – advantage).
• Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including networking, Helm charts, and autoscaling.
• Strong experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Solid background in Linux administration and Bash scripting.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
• Experience working with databases (Aurora RDS is an advantage).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog.
• Strong ownership mindset, ability to operate with ambiguity, and willingness to get hands-on when needed.

Advantages

• Experience building internal platforms or self-service tooling for engineering teams.
• Background in high-scale or distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets management, least privilege).
• Familiarity with startup growth challenges — scaling systems, teams, and processes.
• Experience in cloud integrations.
• Experience leading incident response and running blameless postmortems.
• Previous work in security or cybersecurity products.