Software Engineer - Security Intelligence & Engagement
Big Ideas. Real People.
At Orca, in the right environment and with the right team, talent has no boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to always aim high, has quickly earned us unicorn status and turned us into a global cloud security innovation leader. So if you’re ready to join an amazing team of people who inspire each other every day, now is the time to find your place in our pod.
We’re looking for driven and talented people like you to join our R&D team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?
Highlights
- High-growth: Over the past seven years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
- Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
- Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
- Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.
About the role
As a Software Engineer on the Security Intelligence & Engagement team, you'll be part of a domain responsible for closing the loop between security insight and action across the Orca platform.
Our team builds the systems that transform large-scale cloud security data into meaningful risk insights, such as risk scores, trends, and contextual signals, and the experiences that drive customer response, including alerts, notifications, and guided remediation missions.
You'll work on scalable backend services and distributed systems that power how security insights are generated, aggregated, and delivered to users. The team operates across multiple product domains to ensure that insights lead directly to action, enabling customers to prioritize and resolve risks effectively.
This role is a great opportunity to work on high scale cloud security systems, collaborate across teams, and contribute to building reliable services that sit at the center of Orca's platform.
On a typical day you'll
• Design and implement backend services that generate and deliver security insights and engagement workflows
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that meets production quality standards
• Build scalable systems that process and aggregate large volumes of cloud security signals
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers to translate insights into actionable user experiences
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues while improving system reliability and observability
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help evolve services to support growing scale and new capabilities
• Implement new features following Agile development practices and established engineering standards
• Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and maintainability
About you
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant experience
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building backend services or data driven systems
• Familiarity with microservice architectures and cloud native environments
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design
• Experience working with databases such as Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, or similar
• Experience with Python or Go (advantage)
• Familiarity with distributed systems or event driven architectures such as Kafka (advantage)