Senior Software Engineer - Platform
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 4, 2026.
Description
Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity!
Join Pentera and take your career to the next level in cybersecurity. As a leader in Automated Security Validation, we help businesses around the world safely emulate real-world attacks to uncover their vulnerabilities, just like the world’s best red teams. At Pentera, you will be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, working on advanced tools that challenge organizations' defenses and push the limits of security testing.
With over 350 team members and 1,300 customers in more than 60 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors such as Insight Partners, K1, and The Blackstone Group.
If you want to grow your skills, make an impact, and be part of an innovative team, Pentera is the place for you.
About the role:
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong DevOps focus to join our Platform team. We're building the cloud platform that runs Pentera from SaaS: an event-driven AWS control plane that manages, upgrades and monitors a fleet of attack nodes running in customer environments. You'll own the full path from design to infrastructure to production, and help us build and operate in an AI-native way.
This is a hands-on role for someone who is equally comfortable writing backend services and owning the infrastructure, pipelines and observability those services run on.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and ship backend services on AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, EventBridge), from architecture through production
- Own infrastructure as code with Terraform: IAM, queues, CloudFront/WAF, container registries, and deployment and rollback
- Build the communication layer between the cloud and customer nodes: authentication, command delivery, status reporting, secure artifact delivery
- Improve our CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub) so changes ship to production quickly and safely
- Drive observability with Datadog, OpenTelemetry and CloudWatch, and keep it cost-efficient at fleet scale
- Take end-to-end responsibility from design to implementation, raise the bar on code quality and operational readiness, and mentor other engineers
- Emphasize an AI-native approach by using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow and helping the team get more out of them
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially serverless and event-driven architectures
- Production experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: idempotency, retries, queues, failure handling
- A security-minded approach to IAM, secrets and service-to-service authentication
- Proven track record of owning features end-to-end, from initial design to production .
- Advanced proficiency with AI coding tools in real work
Nice to have:
- Experience with hybrid SaaS and on-prem products, or with managing fleets of agents or edge devices
- Experience with Datadog, OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability
- Background in cybersecurity or infrastructure-heavy products
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment
- DevOps experience as an advantage
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join us!