Senior Software Engineer

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 org. 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 six 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platform) team at Orca Security, you'll be part of a core group responsible for protecting our customers' cloud workloads at scale. Our team scans and analyzes a wide variety of cloud assets - from virtual machines and container images to object storage buckets and databases - to uncover vulnerabilities, secrets, misconfigurations, and other security risks.

This role offers a unique opportunity to build the infrastructure that powers our deep forensics engine. You'll help reconstruct customer file systems across multiple operating systems, extract OS-level and application-level metadata, and enable our security researchers to detect threats and vulnerabilities quickly and reliably. Your work will directly impact the safety and security of thousands of cloud environments worldwide.

We're looking for engineers who are passionate about operating system internals, large-scale distributed systems, and cloud security - and who want to make a meaningful impact by building robust, high-performance security platforms. This is also a great opportunity to take ownership, lead initiatives, and grow through collaboration, mentorship, and technical leadership.

Our Stack: Python, Linux & Windows internals, Container Runtimes, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services for scanning and analyzing cloud workloads (VMs, containers, buckets, databases, etc..)
• Build infrastructure for reconstructing file systems across different operating systems (Linux and Windows) to enable deep analysis
• Integrate security detection engines for vulnerabilities, secrets, compliance, and malware
• Collaborate with security researchers and product managers to translate complex requirements into impactful product features
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code, ensuring high performance and reliability
• Participate in design and code reviews to uphold technical excellence and team standards
• Lead features end-to-end - from design and planning to deployment and monitoring
• Improve system observability, performance, and resilience in production environments
• Stay current with developments in the cloud security landscape, vulnerability management, and OS internals

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience building backend services or distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Python
• Solid understanding of operating system internals
• Familiarity with vulnerability management concepts or tooling
• Experience with major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
• Strong foundation in software design principles, concurrency, memory management, data structures, and algorithms
• Passionate about building great products and solving real-world security challenges
• Self-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership and initiative
• A strong communicator and a true team player who thrives in a collaborative environment
  
  

Bonus Points For:

• Familiarity with container internals and runtime security
• Experience with large-scale file system analysis, malware analysis, or digital forensics
• Background in cybersecurity, especially in cloud security domains