Founding Engineer

🚀 Hiring Founding Engineer (Engineer #3) | VC-Backed AI Security Startup

We’re hiring our 3rd engineer to join a VC-backed AI security startup in stealth. This is a founding-level role with massive ownership and influence on product, architecture, and engineering culture.

The company is building a next-generation AI security platform. As a founding engineer, you’ll work on the core backend systems and infrastructure that power an AI-first product, shaping how the platform is built from day one.

This engineer will help build the backbone of the platform. Everything depends on strong, reliable, and scalable core systems. You’ll be defining how engineering is done at an early stage.

What you’ll do

• Build and scale core backend services and infrastructure
• Own projects end-to-end: design → implementation → production
• Translate high-level ideas into solid technical systems
• Improve reliability, scalability, and performance
• Partner closely with product on new AI security capabilities
• Help establish engineering standards, architecture, and best practices
• Be deeply involved in early production and operational readiness

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of backend or systems engineering experience
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and high ownership
• Pragmatic decision-maker: balances speed with long-term quality
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Bonus

• Experience in AI security, cybersecurity, or B2B SaaS
• Startup or early-stage company background
• Cloud, containers, or event-driven systems experience

🌟 Why Join

• Be Engineer #3 at a VC-backed company
• Founding-level impact on product and technical direction
• Work on cutting-edge problems in AI security
• Extremely high ownership and visibility
• Small, senior, engineering-driven team

Details

• Full-time role
• Based in Tel Aviv
• Strong preference for working from the office 4 days a week