Senior Backend Software Engineer

R&D

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Israel

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Job ID - POS5111_1

Company Description

CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.

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Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to contribute to the development of CyberArk’s enterprise SaaS platform. The role focuses on designing, building, and improving backend services and large-scale infrastructure components.

What You’ll Do:

Design and implement backend services that drive a high-scale, high-availability SaaS product.
Lead and contribute to the development of a new rule-engine solution, including architecture, data flow design, and performance considerations.
Work on complex architectural challenges, improving system scalability, stability, and long-term maintainability.
Develop new features end-to-end: analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
Ensure code quality, performance, observability, and security across backend components.
Collaborate with architects and other engineering teams to design robust technical solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

Strong backend development skills and solid knowledge of server-side fundamentals.
Interest in complex systems, modern technologies, and building scalable distributed architectures.
Ability to work independently and contribute effectively to a high-performing engineering team.

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Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering related field/technology Elite unit alumni with relevant experience.
5+ years of backend development experience with Python and cloud technologies,
Experience in scale-enterprise application development in cloud/SaaS environment (AWS serverless architecture is a definite advantage)
specifically AWS services such as Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS or DynamoDB.
Solid understanding of security and networking implementation and best practices.

How will you stand out from the crowd:

Experience with AWS services.
Experience with CDK.
Experience with modern CI/CD tools, particularly GitHub, Jenkins and Artifactory
Experienced with microservice/event-oriented design and development.