R&D Group Leader

About Cellebrite:

Cellebrite’s (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to enable its global customers to protect and save lives by enhancing digital investigations and intelligence gathering to accelerate justice in communities around the world.

Cellebrite’s AI-powered Digital Investigation Platform enables customers to lawfully access, collect, analyze and share digital evidence in legally sanctioned investigations while preserving data privacy. Thousands of public safety organizations, intelligence agencies and businesses rely on Cellebrite’s digital forensic and investigative solutions-available via cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments-to close cases faster and safeguard communities.

To learn more, visit us at www.cellebrite.com, https://investors.cellebrite.com/investors and find us on social media @Cellebrite.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced R&D Platform Group Lead to own and lead the Data domain alongside core backend platform services, built and operated on AWS.

This is a senior technical-managerial role responsible for multiple R&D teams, defining technical direction and ensuring operational excellence for shared platform capabilities used across Cellebrite products.

The role requires strong cloud-native architecture experience on AWS, deep backend and data engineering expertise, and proven people leadership at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Group & People Leadership

Own and evolve the data platform architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability
Lead the strategic evolution of the data platform, balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost
Drive adoption of modern data patterns such as lakehouse (Iceberg), event-driven pipelines, and schema-aware data processing
Drive cloud-native architecture using AWS services and Kubernetes (EKS)
Drive design, model, and evolve the Data Lake architecture
Drive design, build, and optimize high-scale ETL/ELT pipelines
Lead the design and development of backend services and APIs for SaaS applications
Partner with security and governance stakeholders to support regulated and sensitive data workloads
Lead design reviews and architecture discussions
Collaborate closely with data scientists, ML engineers, backend teams, and product managers to deliver end-to-end data solutions

Requirements:

Over 8 years of leadership experience as a Group Leader (second-line manager) leading SaaS teams in data and backend domains
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native data platforms on AWS (mandatory)
Deep understanding of designing, building, and operating backend services on AWS
Strong understanding of AWS data ecosystem and Data Lake/Lakehouse architectures
Python & TypeScript as a primary language
Strategic thinker with the ability to translate long-term vision into actionable roadmaps
Strong sense of end-to-end ownership, from design to production operations
Passion for automation, simplicity, and scalable design
Excellent communicator who can translate complex technical decisions to diverse stakeholders

Office Location:
Petah Tikva