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Senior Software Engineer- Platform Group

Salt Security

Salt Security

Software Engineering
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Apr 6, 2023

Salt Security is the original API Security vendor pioneering the market as the first vendor in 2018. Since then we have exhibited hyper-growth in a number of customers, threats stopped, and revenue. We saw API security as the security battleground of the future years ago as APIs started to form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every modern app depends on APIs. Attackers realize APIs are the conduits to all sorts of valuable data and services – within the year, APIs are predicted to be the number one application threat vector. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot rapidly innovate. Salt Security has delivered the only patented solution to discover all APIs and their exposed data, stop API attackers, and provide remediation details for dev teams to write more secure APIs.

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving diverse challenges.

Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!

Why join us NOW

APIs form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot rapidly innovate. Salt Security has delivered the only patented solution to identify and prevent API attacks, using Big Data and AI to thwart this top threat to businesses today.

We are backed by the best investors in the world (YCombinator, S-Capital, Tenaya, Sequoia, Capital G, and more) and recently achieved a $1.4B valuation.

We have an amazing customer base - https://salt.security/customers and we’re at a unique sweet spot in a startup’s lifecycle - the demand from customers is huge, yet our team is small and super-high quality.

Now is the opportunity to be a partner in this growth and help shape the future of Salt Security as the world’s leader in API security.

Who we are

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving a diverse set of engineering challenges.

Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!

About the position

Our engineering team is made of strong all-around players. Every engineer works on all aspects of the system - from orchestration of our Kubernetes clusters, to inventing new algorithms that detect advanced attacks on APIs, to making our product’s deployments more seamless to customers.

Salt’s engineers are experienced, highly motivated, independent, fast learners, great problem solvers, and are super to work with.

The Platform team is crucial in making Salt Security the API security leader.
The team oversees and builds infrastructure and tooling to allow the system to scale and perform in a fast, stable, and secure manner with bleeding-edge tech.
The platform team is leading the revolution of Salt’s cloud services, providing the expertise and best practices for development in the highest standards.

To learn more about Salt Security’s R&D - https://tinyurl.com/salt-rndAbout the team

About the team


The group handles collection of traffic from all of our customers, responsible for the infrastructure of our system. It is a crucial part of Salt, and requires expertise to be able to build a system that handles Billions of requests per day. The Platform group handles this end-to-end, from deployment, monitoring and development of the necessary infrastructure to collect and process traffic from all of our customers, taking into account the many variations of their infrastructure.

Who Are You?

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience with at least 2 of the programming languages:
    • Go (big advantage) / Java / Kotlin / Scala / C# / Python / Ruby
  • Passionate and experienced in implementing Microservices patterns in a cloud-native environment
  • Dynamic, self-directed and capable of absorbing new information quickly
  • Experience with high-scale systems.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Helm
  • Experience with Linux
  • Experience with Cloud - AWS / Azure / GCP

Preferred (but not mandatory) experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or relevant military background
  • Platform / DevOps / Leadership positions in the past
  • Experience with GitOps (Argo / Flux / etc.)