5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of scalable backend systems powering the AI-native cybersecurity platform.
- Drive complex 0-to-1 technical initiatives through system design, strategy, implementation, and operationalization.
- Partner with product, AI, security, and platform teams to translate ambiguous business and customer problems into technical solutions.
- Lead critical design discussions and provide technical leadership across multiple engineering domains and initiatives.
- Identify and address technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and operational challenges proactively.
- Improve observability, reliability, testing, deployment workflows, and operational excellence across engineering.
- Shape engineering culture through high standards for execution, craftsmanship, collaboration, and ownership.
- Mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
Requirements
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems.
- Experience leading the design and delivery of large-scale, highly available cloud-native systems.
- Strong system design expertise spanning distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, data-intensive applications, and infrastructure scalability.
- Experience leading complex technical projects involving significant ambiguity and cross-functional coordination.
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Rust, Python, TypeScript, or Go.
- Expertise building systems on modern cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort and curiosity working with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- Preferred: experience building AI-native products or integrating LLM/agent-based systems into production.
- Preferred: background in cybersecurity, security operations, or high-sensitivity infrastructure environments.
- Preferred: experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms at scale.
- Preferred: familiarity with real-time data pipelines, streaming systems, and large-scale telemetry processing.
- Preferred: experience in high-growth startup environments.
- Preferred: track record of building and scaling engineering teams, processes, and technical culture.
About Seven AI
Seven AI (7AI) builds an AI-driven security operations platform for enterprises, combining federated SIEM, agentic investigation, threat hunting, and automated response. Delivered as software for SOC teams, it reduces repetitive triage and incident response work and supports large-scale environments. Founded in 2024 by Lior Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit, the company is privately held and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.