Tech Lead- Platform Backend Engineer

As the world’s leading vendor of Cyber Security, facing the most sophisticated threats and attacks, we’ve assembled a global team of the most driven, creative, and innovative people. At Check Point, our employees are redefining the security landscape by meeting our customers’ real-time needs and providing our cutting-edge technologies and services to an ever-growing customer base.

Check Point Software Technologies has been honored by Time Magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies and recently Gartner rated Check Point email security as a market leader for product, detection and innovation. We've also earned a spot on the Forbes list of the World’s Best Places to Work for five consecutive years (2020-2024) and recognized as one of the World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies. If you're passionate about making the world a safer place and want to be part of an award-winning company culture, we invite you to join us.

Check Point Harmony Email Security and Collaboration (previously AVANAN) is a unique product within the large Check Point acting as an independent business unit, moving fast as a startup company, alongside the benefits of being part of a global Cyber security company. Our team is a no-ego, startup-mode group of amazing people, sharing the same goal of winning together and delivering one of the world's best email security solutions. We serve in scale with a full SaaS solution deployed in most continentals on the globe. We innovate, we surprise and we grow!

The Platform team in Harmony Email Security and Collaboration owns the data layer of our product: persistence, access control, rate limiting, data in transit, data security, performance, data optimization, and data retention policies. We also design and maintain components that several critical backend services share at massive scale, such as data lakes, central orchestration components, and frameworks.

The team is based on the US East Coast and reports directly to the Head of R&D in Israel. We are looking for a Tech Lead in Tel Aviv to be the platform's presence in the Israel time zone and to work with the large R&D organization there.

As the local focal point, you will lead platform initiatives, research and develop technology that many internal users depend on, and work closely with application and infrastructure teams across all R&D units to apply our solutions to their components. A typical week splits between architecture and design discussions with other teams, hands-on coding and code reviews, and improving how our services behave in production.

Our challenges are throughput, stability, and cost at massive scale, for mission-critical components that many services rely on. We work mainly in Python (asyncio, FastAPI) on AWS (SQS, S3, DynamoDB), with Docker, ECS/Kubernetes, Redis, OpenSearch, and Neptune. Our work keeps the platform fast, reliable, and cost-efficient, and it directly affects how quickly every Email Security team can deliver protection to our customers.

AI is part of how we work. Our AI challenge is applying AI tools to a large, shared codebase and to production operations, such as investigations, capacity tuning, and data migrations, while keeping correctness, security, and design quality high.

The perfect match is a hands-on backend engineer who leads through design and example. If you feel at home with a remote direct manager and team, enjoy working with people from different teams, love technological and engineering challenges, and want to be a local champion, you're the right person!

* Be the Platform team's technical lead in Israel: own the architecture and technical direction of the data layer and shared components, and drive key design decisions

* Lead cross-team platform initiatives end to end, from research and solution framing to rollout across R&D

* Partner with application and infrastructure teams across all R&D units, shape how they adopt platform solutions, and be the local authority on the platform

* Design and build high-throughput, data-intensive services covering persistence, access control, rate limiting, data security, and retention

* Design and build REST APIs, frameworks, and orchestration components that other teams build on

* Drive performance, scalability, stability, and cost-efficiency improvements across the Email and Collaboration Security platform

* Own the full lifecycle of your components: design, development, testing, deployment, production monitoring, and troubleshooting

* Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, raise the bar on code quality, and champion AI-assisted engineering practices

• Managerial skills: At least 2 years of experience in a managerial role, not necessarily technical or people management, such as project manager, team manager, military officer, product manager, architect, or tech lead.

• 5+ years of Python programming experience, including backend services in production

• Hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems (Docker, ECS/Kubernetes)

• Strong grasp of asynchronous programming: asyncio and async libraries such as FastAPI/Starlette, aiohttp/httpx, or aiobotocore

• Proficiency with AWS services (SQS, S3, ECS, DynamoDB)

• Experience designing data models and persistence for high-volume systems with NoSQL stores such as DynamoDB, Redis, or similar

• Experience designing and building REST APIs

• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting high-scale services in production

• Daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code or similar) in your development workflow

• Experience profiling and optimizing Python services for latency and throughput

• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

• Experience with graph databases, such as AWS Neptune

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and infrastructure as code (CloudFormation)