Software Team Leader – Database Security

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 3–5 software engineers, providing technical guidance and driving engineering excellence.

• Define software architecture, technical strategy, and development direction for database security products.

• Design and develop advanced cybersecurity and data security solutions for enterprise environments.

• Lead security architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews.

• Translate complex security requirements and research concepts into practical, scalable software solutions.

• Drive secure software development practices across architecture, design, implementation, and deployment.

• Solve complex technical challenges related to security, reliability, scalability, and performance.

• Collaborate with security researchers, product management, and cross-functional engineering teams.

• Participate in customer-facing technical discussions and occasional international travel.

• Remain hands-on and contribute to critical software components and technical decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience.

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role.

• Strong expertise in cybersecurity, data security, or security software development.

• Proven experience conducting cybersecurity research and developing security technologies.

• Strong software architecture and system design skills.

• Extensive hands-on experience with C/C++ development on Linux.

• Experience designing and developing complex enterprise software systems.

• Strong understanding of secure software development methodologies and security-focused system design.

• Ability to analyze complex security problems and develop practical engineering solutions.

• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability and willingness to travel occasionally.

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (M.Sc. is an advantage).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL.

• Understanding of database security concepts including encryption, auditing, access control, authentication, authorization, and data protection technologies.

• Background in security research, vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, or security architecture.

• Experience analyzing attack surfaces and designing security mechanisms to protect complex software systems.

• Experience with operating system security concepts including process isolation, privilege management, memory protection, and Linux security mechanisms.

• Familiarity with cryptographic concepts and secure communication protocols.

• Experience with vulnerability research, reverse engineering, binary analysis, fuzzing, or security testing methodologies.

• Experience developing security-sensitive enterprise software, infrastructure products, or low-level system components.

• Understanding of cloud security concepts and modern enterprise security architectures.

• Familiarity with security standards and frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, OWASP, or similar