Backend Developer at Zafran – Tel Aviv | Jobyssey

Zafran is looking for an experienced Backend Developer that lives and breathes technology to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing backend systems that connect and integrate with customer environments. You will work closely with customers, field engineers, and product teams and be an integral part of the thought and design process of our methodologies and practices which guide us in the critical path of customer onboarding, integration and data flow. The role requires creativity, research and problem-solving skills as well as deep technical knowledge and the ability to deep-dive into complex and difficult problems.

About Zafran:

Our Mission: To stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.

What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 90% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and utilizes Agentic Capabilities and your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 10% most likely to be exploited.

Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations.

We’re serious about our mission- so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way!

What you will do:

Design and implement backend systems that connect and integrate with customer environments
Identify, collect and model data from large-scale environments
Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in backend development
Develop reliable production-grade code which will run side-by-side with customer applications in scale
Dive into a world of endless technologies and explore the latest and greatest cutting-edge software programming languages and frameworks
Collaborate with the product team to create a seamless integration and onboarding process for our customers, including designing the workflow and features that will make the experience as smooth and efficient as possible
Develop key components in the company’s architecture, supporting complex use-cases for the present and future
Develop concurrently at immense scale, with billions of requests for hundreds of customers every day
Lead major changes, taking initiative and influencing the product’s technical and business growth
Work with your teammates to guide R&D through the evolution of the platform, advising and influencing at every scope
Take end-to-end responsibility for your code, through development, testing, rollout and scale-up

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development with languages such as Golang, Python, Java, or C/C++
The ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies as needed
Strong problem-solving, sense of ownership and communication skills, with the ability to work well in a team environment
Familiarity with Cloud environments, including AWS, GCP, or Azure is an advantage
Strong experience with operating systems internals is an advantage.
5+ years of experience, in at least 2 positions
Mentality of a team player, with a capability to see the big picture, and use it to focus on critical detail
Capability and will to take responsibility and have a deep influence
Experience with backend and microservice patterns

Experience with the following is a plus

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Experience with high-scale & high-concurrency
Experience with leadership positions (Team Lead, Tech Lead, etc.)

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