Team Lead Golang Engineer — Sensor Team

About On The SpotWe bring startups and disruptive tech companies to the local market, offering engineers the opportunity to work on innovative, high-impact products. Join us and become a member of their R&D team while we take care of employment, HR support, a benefits package, and an enjoyable work environment.About the teamOrca Security is a cybersecurity startup and cloud innovation leader. Founded in 2019 in Israel by former Check Point managers, it raised $630+ million and became a 'unicorn' in 2021.‍Orca is delivering a modern cloud security platform built for engineers who care about visibility, context, and speed. We scan your entire cloud environment — across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more — giving you deep insights into risks like misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and active threats. Our unified platform shows you what actually matters by prioritizing findings based on context like exposure, privilege, and potential impact.‍As part of Orca cloud security suite, our team is building Orca Sensor — a lightweight runtime component that brings deep visibility and protection to cloud workloads running on Kubernetes, serverless engines and virtual machines.‍ To understand the product, workflow, and see the people on the Sensor team, check this article.‍About the roleAs a Team Lead Golang Engineer, you'll work on a scalable, low-overhead system that collects and processes real-time telemetry to detect threats and anomalies across all sorts of modern cloud environments.‍You will assume the pivotal position of developer with exposure to DevOps domain, entrusted with spearheading the creation of innovative software products.‍Our mission is to make cloud security smarter, faster, and easier to deploy — without the burden of traditional agents. If you enjoy solving performance and reliability challenges in modern cloud infrastructure, you’ll feel right at home here.‍ResponsibilitiesTechnically oversee end-to-end product implementation, including back-end as well as system part (runtime on Windows/Linux)Ensure end-to-end ownership of the solution by contributing to DevOps aspects of the product (Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting)Provide input into the architecture and design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right wayContribute to feature implementation (primarily in Go language)Develop expertise of AWS, Azure, and GCP products and technologiesOversee team ceremonies and manage team deliveriesManage team performance and employee wellbeing (up to 6 people)Lead communication with stakeholders (upper management, technical support, sales) representing the teamRequirements5+ years of backend development experienceExperience in cloud platforms — at least one of AWS, Azure or GCPInterest and experience in DevOps domain (K8s, Terraform, Helm charts, Github actions, Grafana)Experienced in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native servicesAt least 1 year of experience as a team leader, demonstrating proven leadership and the ability to guide technical decisions — advantageKnowledge of cybersecurity domain — advantageExperience with C++/C — advantageBenefitsWork in a highly professional team. Informal and friendly atmosphere in the teamPaid vacation — 20 business days per year, 100% sick leave paymentEquipment provisionPartially compensated educational costs (for courses, certifications, professional events, etc.)Legal and Accounting support in PolandAbility to work from our comfortable office in Warsaw at Prosta 515 sick days per yearMedical insurance (after the end of the probationary period)English and Polish classes 2 times a week (online)Bright and memorable corporate life: corporate parties, gifts to employees on significant dates