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We are building a state-of-the-art security platform for large enterprises in the exciting and innovative new field of software containers. Our systems are deployed on thousands of customer servers around the world. A distributed system to watch over distributed systems!\nWe are looking for a talented Tech Lead to join our server team, in charge of developing Aqua's management console - a multi-component system with many responsibilities, performing various background jobs and large-scale data processing; supplying REST APIs, a web based UI and more.\nIn this role, you will take part in further development of our management console, writing features across the entire application stack: SQL queries, business logic, background processes, REST APIs and web-based user interfaces.\nAt Aqua, you will not be writing code for in-house applications. You will be writing code for large technology companies, banks, government agencies and multi-national chains.\n Our product is composed of multiple components, mostly installed on-premise in our customer's cloud environments, but also has SaaS components, plugins for various CI/CD systems and many more. Almost everything runs inside containers. It is written in Go - an exciting new language from Google, and heavily depends on free software/open source components. Our web UI is currently written in VueJS. We are primarily a Linux company, but our software also supports Windows and Mac.\nWorking from Aqua Hyderabad office a minimum of 3 days per week (Mon, Tues, Thu)\nRequirements\n10+ years of hands-on engineering experience delivering features for large-scale, distributed applications.\nProven experience designing and building multi-component systems / microservices with efficient inter-service communication patterns.\nStrong programming background in Go, Node.js, Java, or similar high-level languages - extra credit if you’ve used Go in production or survived a weekend debugging a catastrophic memory leak.\nExperienced in building and maintaining APIs (REST or RPC) while owning the lifecycle of backward-compatibility decisions (including the ones you regret).\nPassionate about modern engineering practices, open-source ecosystems, and developing software that runs reliably at scale in real customer environments.\nAI & GenAI Expertise\nPractical, high-impact experience using GenAI development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) to boost developer productivity, accelerate code reviews, support architectural decisions, and improve engineering workflows.\nFamiliarity with AI-supported observability, predictive alerting, data analysis and intelligent root-cause analysis.\nExperience integrating AI/ML-assisted tooling into design, development, test automation, CI/CD, or operational pipelines is a strong plus.\nData & Storage Technologies\nDeep hands-on experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) and/or NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase).\nPostgreSQL database knowledge and performance tuning should outline specific technical competencies and optimization responsibilities\nComfortable writing complex queries (yes, including multi-join monsters) and having strong opinions on integer vs UUIDprimary keys.\nBonus points for familiarity with Graph Databases.\nCloud, Infra & DevOps\nSolid, production-grade experience on AWS (required).\nStrong knowledge of IaC tooling, automated provisioning, and cloud-native infrastructure design.\nExperience building cloud-native apps using Serverless (Lambda), SNS, SQS, S3, EC2, and event-driven architectures.\nUnderstanding of AI-supported IaC, automated configuration checks, and intelligent cloud monitoring is a plus.\nContainers, Linux & Ecosystem\nStrong Linux fundamentals - you should feel at home in *nix environments.\nHands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (required); OpenShift is a bonus.\nKnowledge of event streaming platforms like Kafka is a plus.\nAqua Security is the pioneer in cloud native security. Founded in 2015, Aqua Security is a global late-stage scale-up and the largest pure play cloud native vendor. Aqua helps enterprises see and stop threats across every phase of the software development lifecycle, from dev to cloud and back.\nIf you’re ready for an exciting opportunity to dive into the hottest cybersecurity category, now is the perfect time to join Aqua! We are a global organization where every Aquarian can make a difference and make a big impact. 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