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Platform Engineer

Orca Security
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025
ABOUT US

Dive right in. Swim with our pod.

At Orca, we believe that in the right environment and with the right team, talent has no boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to always aim high, have 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 an experienced R & D professional to get the word out and join our mission to change the future of cloud security. At Orca, we're proud of what we do and we always aim high. This, together with our belief in the power of teamwork, has quickly turned us into a global cloud security innovation leader (and a unicorn). Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Fast growth: This company has momentum. It's THE opportune time to join Orca Security.
  • Disruptive technology: Orca Security completely changed the way cloud is secured and is leading a new approach of how security solutions should be built. It's completely agentless and detects every important risk in the cloud environment down to the data layer. It's fast, simple, and complete.
  • Well-capitalized: Total funding is over $630MM in less than 24 months. CapitalG, Redpoint, GGV, YL Ventures, and SVCI. SVCI is a syndicate of CISOs who invested their own money after careful due diligence.
  • Founded and led by 8 architects and executives from Check Point and quickly joined by many senior engineers from Palo Alto and Check Point.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In your role as an SRE engineer, you will plan, develop, monitor, and optimize the architecture of our company's systems. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills and:

  • Monitor production environment, incl. containerized workloads using Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies.
  • Understand processes, event management and prioritization
  • Respond to issues and various technical problems in real time including hands-on Phyton coding
  • Track issues End to End until problems are resolved
  • perform the initial evaluation for incidents and contact the relevant stake holders in the organization as needed
  • Define and maintain KPI's to assure production system health
  • Build monitoring dashboards including relevant alerts

FedRAMP SECURITY AND PRIVACY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ensure the smooth and secure operation of Orca's GovCloud and other relevant environments.
  • Take charge of applying FedRAMP continuous dependency upgrades and resolving vulnerabilities
  • Improve system monitoring and observability through log analysis, dashboard creation, and automated alerts based on established SLOs and SLAs
  • Adhere to Orca's policies and procedures according to the designation of Internal-Privileged access rights.

ABOUT YOU

  • 3 years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Tech Support/QA/Automation
  • Expertise in scripting languages like Go, Python, or PowerShell for automation tasks.
  • Knowledge on databases - Postgres and Elasticsearch queries
  • Monitoring solutions experience - Grafana, Prometheus or any others
  • Proven hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure management.
  • Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies
  • Self-learning abilities and a technical understanding
  • Able to provide in depth analyses in a short time
  • Ability to provide support to Orca Production in flexible hours Troubleshooting and diagnosis capabilities
  • Excellent communication skills and teamwork
  • Self-management, multitasking, and prioritization skills
  • Fast learner, and ability to perform well under pressure

Salary : $630

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