Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
BuildGuard sits at a timely intersection in SaaS: developer tooling, CI/CD observability, and software supply-chain security. The listing signals a new product initiative inside an established platform, which typically means building foundational capabilities while aligning with enterprise-grade expectations around reliability and integration. The technical surface area—build systems, hermetic environments, and high-throughput artifact/log processing—maps directly to the challenges faced by modern SaaS teams shipping frequently.
For a SaaS engineering career, this kind of role compounds into durable expertise. It touches product architecture, operational concerns, and the “last mile” of developer experience where adoption is won or lost. Working on deep integrations with common build tooling and embedding security signals into pipelines builds transferable judgment across DevOps, platform engineering, and application security—domains that increasingly converge in SaaS organizations.
This role tends to suit senior engineers who prefer owning ambiguous problem spaces and turning them into shippable systems, rather than iterating on narrow feature slices. It also fits professionals who enjoy writing design docs, collaborating closely with product stakeholders, and setting technical direction while still staying hands-on in Golang and systems-level work.
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
Lead Engineer - BuildGuard
- Engineering
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Senior
- Full-time
Description
Who We Are: Incredibuild
Incredibuild is the leading platform empowering developers and enterprises to radically accelerate their development cycles. We help world-leading brands like Microsoft, Citi Bank, GM, Amazon, and Adobe shorten build times, allowing for more iterations, faster product releases, and significant resource savings. Our technology streamlines and accelerates everything from compilation to release automation, dramatically expediting time to market for our clients.
Our engineering department is rapidly expanding as we lead the charge in modernizing development to be SaaS and AI-native. We are now launching BuildGuard, a new product designed to secure and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
If you're ready to tackle problems of massive scale, lead a new initiative from the ground up, and shape the future of secure software delivery, come join our team!
As a Lead Engineer - BuildGuard
You will engineer secure, high-performance build solutions:
- Architect and build the core engine of BuildGuard using Golang, focusing on deep build introspection and security.
- Design and implement secure build environments, analyzing compiler behavior and dependency chains to detect vulnerabilities in real-time.
- Develop low-level integrations with build systems (Make, Ninja, Bazel) to ensure hermetic and reproducible builds.
- Integrate the product directly into the CI/CD pipeline without compromising speed or developer experience.
- Build resilient, scalable services that can handle the massive throughput of enterprise build artifacts and logs.
You will lead product architecture and innovation:
- Partner with Product Managers to translate abstract security and build challenges into defined technical requirements and concrete solutions.
- Own the technical vision for BuildGuard end-to-end, from architectural concepts to production deployment.
- Communicate complex security and build concepts clearly via design docs, diagrams, and discussions with stakeholders.
- Thrive in uncertainty, showing technical independence to drive solutions from ambiguous requirements in a new product territory.
- Contribute to the technical roadmap, breaking down complex security features into milestones and guiding the team's development.
You will champion quality, security, and execution:
- Embrace complex challenges, solving novel problems at the intersection of build performance and application security.
- Develop comprehensive automated testing strategies to ensure reliable, secure deployments.
- Drive execution within an Agile framework (sprint planning, decomposition, retros) while maintaining a high bar for security standards.
- Manage and prioritize the technical backlog to balance feature delivery with architectural integrity and security hardening.
- Leverage AI development tools to boost productivity, applying critical judgment to verify and integrate code securely.
Requirements
The tools and services we use across Incredibuild are:
Golang | Python | React | Linux/Windows Internals | C++ | CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) | Docker | K8s | AWS | SAST/DAST Tools
We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly align with all requirements. We prioritize a positive attitude, deep technical curiosity, and potential over an exact match in experience or skills.
