Backend Team Lead

We are looking for an experienced Backend Team Lead to join our Harmony SaaS Security group and lead the development of our Data Loss Prevention (DLP) platform.
Job Id: 25362
Our team was born from a successful cybersecurity startup acquisition and operates with a startup mindset inside a global cybersecurity leader. We focus on building advanced security solutions that protect organizations from sensitive data exposure across modern SaaS environments.
As a Backend Team Lead, you will own the architecture and evolution of a large scale DLP platform responsible for detecting, analyzing, and protecting sensitive data across thousands of organizations and millions of SaaS events.
You will lead a team of highly skilled backend engineers, working with a modern cloud native stack including Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Postgres, and will design systems that process and analyze massive volumes of security data in real time.
This role combines technical leadership, system architecture, and hands-on development, with opportunities to shape the future of our platform, introduce AI-driven security capabilities, and drive engineering excellence across the team.
If you enjoy building large scale distributed systems, leading strong engineers, and solving complex security problems, we would love to meet you.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence.
Own the technical direction and architecture of the DLP product and its backend services.
Design and build high scale distributed systems that ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of SaaS security events.
Drive architectural decisions around event driven systems, data pipelines, and cloud native infrastructure.
Collaborate closely with product managers, security researchers, and data teams to deliver impactful security capabilities.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
Ensure high standards for performance, reliability, scalability, and observability.
Build and optimize systems leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and GCP services.
Drive innovation by exploring and integrating AI-based capabilities for advanced data classification and security detection.
Maintain operational ownership of production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvements.