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We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.\nWell-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.\nRespectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.\nAbout the Role: \nAs a Senior Software Engineer on the KSPM team at Orca Security, you will join a mission-critical group building and scaling one of the company’s core and fastest-growing security products. Our team enables customers to secure their Kubernetes environments across every major cloud provider, delivering deep visibility into cluster misconfigs, RBAC risk, admission control, compliance drift and container vulnerabilities.\nIn this role you will design the backend services and data models that discover, onboard, scan, and represent K8s workloads, APIs, and configurations at scale. You will own core services end-to-end, drive architectural improvements and partner with security researchers to turn complex threat vectors into actionable insights.\nWe are looking for backend engineers who care deeply about software design, cloud-native infrastructure, and container security. 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