Software Developer - WAF SaaS Features

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

We are looking for a passionate Software Developer to join our WAF SaaS Platform team, where we build, evolve, and operate Check Point’s cloud-native WAF SaaS product.

In this role, you will develop new SaaS product capabilities while also building and operating the cloud infrastructure that powers the platform. You will work across backend services, Kubernetes environments, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and, when needed, frontend components.

We are looking for a strong team player with a high sense of ownership, a “get-things-done” mindset, and the willingness to contribute across all areas of development - from UI and backend to DevOps and cloud infrastructure.

Major Responsibilities

• Develop new features and capabilities for Check Point’s WAF SaaS product, with a focus on backend services, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps-oriented development
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure that supports customer environments, production workloads, and global SaaS deployments
• Take part in creating and operating new POPs, improving customer environment provisioning, and evolving the platform’s scalability and availability
• Develop SaaS product capabilities such as certificate management, CDN-related flows, DDoS-related capabilities, onboarding flows, and other customer-facing platform features
• Work with cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and automation tools
• Take end-to-end ownership of features and infrastructure components, from design and implementation through deployment, observability, support, and production operation
• Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and operational tools, using data and metrics to improve reliability, performance, and product decisions
• Collaborate closely with developers, DevOps engineers, product managers, security researchers, support teams, and other stakeholders
• Support production environments, investigate customer issues, and understand the real-world impact of features, bugs, and infrastructure changes

• 3+ years of experience as a software developer, DevOps engineer, infrastructure engineer, or in a similar cloud-oriented development role
• B.Sc. in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Strong programming skills in Python, Node.js, or a similar programming language
• Hands-on experience with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, and production workloads
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment processes
• Experience working with databases, preferably NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Understanding of production systems, including scalability, availability, monitoring, logging, and incident investigation
• Experience using AI-powered development tools and integrating AI capabilities into daily development workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with caching, messaging, and streaming technologies such as Redis or Kafka
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, including writing providers
• Experience with frontend development using React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with observability and search platforms such as Elastic Stack and Grafana
• Familiarity with GraphQL