Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Backend Team Lead role stands out because it sits at the platform layer of a cybersecurity SaaS product—where reliability, scale, and secure-by-design architecture directly shape what the application can deliver. Leading a “Cyber Infrastructure” function in an automated security validation context signals work that is tightly coupled to distributed systems fundamentals rather than feature-only delivery, which is a common differentiator in mature SaaS engineering organizations.
For a long-term SaaS career, platform leadership experience tends to compound: it builds fluency in operating cloud services, evolving microservices and event-driven patterns, and setting engineering standards that hold up under production load. The remit across architecture, rollout, and ongoing operations also aligns with how SaaS companies measure engineering impact—through uptime, performance, observability, and predictable delivery—skills that transfer across categories beyond security.
This role is best suited to an experienced backend engineer who wants to remain hands-on while taking accountability for technical direction and mentoring senior peers. It will fit someone who enjoys cross-functional alignment with product and research, and who is motivated by turning ambiguous platform needs into concrete roadmaps and operational outcomes within a SaaS environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Backend Team Lead - Cyber Infrastructure Team
Description
Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity!
As a leader in Automated Security Validation, we help businesses around the world safely emulate real-world attacks to uncover their vulnerabilities. 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 400 team members and 1,100+ customers in more than 50 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors like Insight Partners, K1, and The Blackstone Group.
If you are looking to grow your skills, make a difference, and be part of an innovative team, Pentera is the place for you.
About the role:
We’re looking for an experienced Backend Team Lead to lead our Cyber Infrastructure Team, a group of senior engineers and architects building backend services and platform foundations within Pentera’s Autonomous Hacking platform. This is a hands-on leadership role, you will set technical direction, coach senior talent, and still write production code.
You’ll work closely with product, research, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, secure systems, from design to production.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Lead the development of backend platform components and services, owning features end-to-end from architecture and design to production rollout and ongoing operations.
- Provide technical leadership for a senior team, drive design reviews, engineering standards, mentoring, and healthy, high-performing team culture.
- Own technical planning and execution, translate product and platform needs into an executable roadmap, and deliver with predictable quality and velocity.
- Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems, event-driven and microservices-based solutions, balancing scale, reliability, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with product managers, security research, and QA to define requirements, ship new capabilities, and continuously improve quality.
- Establish engineering best practices, code reviews, testing, documentation, observability, incident analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and growing the team over time.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on backend software development experience, strong coding ability in Java and or Python.
- 3+ years of proven team leadership experience, leading experienced engineers, ideally in a mid-sized or scaling company.
- Demonstrated technical authority, comfortable making architecture decisions, influencing peers, and aligning stakeholders.
- Proven track record building and operating scalable distributed systems and microservices in production.
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers (Docker), messaging (RabbitMQ or similar), and databases (MongoDB or equivalent).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, ability to lead senior people through alignment, clarity, and execution, including navigating challenging conversations.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience tackling performance, reliability, and optimization challenges in production systems.
- Background in cybersecurity products, attack simulation, exposure management, or security tooling ecosystems.
- Experience with streaming and data processing frameworks (for example Flink), and event-driven architectures at scale.
- Strong sense of ownership, from architecture through delivery and operational excellence.
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!
