Backend Team Lead

We are looking for anexperienced Backend Team Lead to join ourHarmony SaaS Security group and lead the development of ourData Loss Prevention (DLP) platform.

Our team was born from a successful cybersecurity startup acquisition and operates with astartup 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 willown 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 ateam of highly skilled backend engineers, working with a modern cloud native stack includingGo, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Postgres, and will design systems that process and analyze massive volumes of security data in real time.

This role combinestechnical leadership, system architecture, and hands-on development, with opportunities to shape the future of our platform, introduceAI-driven security capabilities, and drive engineering excellence across the team.

If you enjoybuilding large scale distributed systems, leading strong engineers, and solving complex security problems, we would love to meet you.

• Lead and grow ateam of backend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Own thetechnical direction and architecture of the DLP product and its backend services.
• Design and buildhigh scale distributed systems that ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of SaaS security events.
• Drive architectural decisions aroundevent driven systems, data pipelines, and cloud native infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely withproduct managers, security researchers, and data teams to deliver impactful security capabilities.
• Mentor engineers throughtechnical guidance, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
• Ensure high standards forperformance, reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Build and optimize systems leveraging technologies such asKafka, Kubernetes, and GCP services.
• Drive innovation by exploring and integratingAI-based capabilities for advanced data classification and security detection.
• Maintain operational ownership of production systems, includingmonitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvements.

• 5+ years of experience buildingbackend systems and distributed architectures.
• 3+ years of experience in atechnical leadership or team lead role, managing and mentoring engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience withGolang (or other backend languages with a willingness to work in Go)-an advantage
• Experience designing and operatinglarge scale cloud native systems.
• Strong experience withMajor cloud platforms – GCP is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience withKubernetes and containerized microservices architectures.
• Experience buildingevent driven systems and streaming pipelines using Kafka or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding ofsystem design, scalability, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Experience working withlarge scale data processing systems.
• Experience working with and early adapting to new AI tools.
• Background incybersecurity, SaaS security, or data protection technologies - an advantage.
• Background in SaaS applciation API usage and throttling – an advantage
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to thrive infast moving environments with high ownership and autonomy.

• Believe in learning new things every day.