Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Location:

UK, London area.

Join us at Orca Security—a global cloud security innovation leader—where talent has no boundaries and we’re driven to aim high. If you’re ready to join an amazing team that inspires each other every day, now is the time to find your place in our pod.

• High-growth:
  Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more.
• Disruptive innovation:
  We invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well‑capitalized:
  With a valuation of $1.8 billion, we’re backed by investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI.
• Respectful and transparent culture:
  Our executives pride themselves on accessibility and knowledge sharing.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Security Intelligence and Posture team, you’ll build systems that collect, integrate, and analyze security data from diverse sources across our customers’ cloud environments. You’ll own critical components of our data collection and analysis pipelines, drive architectural decisions, and help us scale to new platforms and domains.

Our Stack
:
Python, Go, Neptune, Gremlin, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Dynamo

DB, Django, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS

• Write clean, concise code that is stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
• Write production-ready code that meets design specifications, anticipates edge cases, and accounts for scalability
• Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
• Implement new requirements within our Agile delivery methodology while following our established architectural principles
• Lead initiatives end to end—from design and planning to implementation and deployment—while aligning cross‑functional teams and ensuring technical excellence
• Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
• Provide input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
• Develop expertise of AWS products and technologies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Proven experience building data-intensive systems at scale
• Experience with Python—must
• Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous message processing
• Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronisation, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc.

• Experience with Go.
• Experience with graph databases.
• Experience with distributed data processing technologies like Kafka.

Mid‑Senior level

Full-time