- 9+ years of hands-on engineering experience delivering features for large-scale, distributed applications.
- Proven experience designing and building multi‑component systems / microservices with efficient inter‑service communication patterns.
- Strong programming background in Go, Node.js, Java, or similar high-level languages — extra credit if you’ve used Go in production or survived a weekend debugging a catastrophic memory leak.
- Experienced in building and maintaining APIs (REST or RPC) while owning the lifecycle of backward‑compatibility decisions (including the ones you regret).
- Passionate about modern engineering practices, open-source ecosystems, and developing software that runs reliably at scale in real customer environments.
AI & GenAI Expertise
- Practical, high-impact experience using GenAI development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) to boost developer productivity, accelerate code reviews, support architectural decisions, and improve engineering workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-supported observability, predictive alerting, data analysis and intelligent root‑cause analysis.
- Experience integrating AI/ML-assisted tooling into design, development, test automation, CI/CD, or operational pipelines is a strong plus.
Data & Storage Technologies
- Deep hands-on experience with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) and/or NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase).
- Comfortable writing complex queries (yes, including multi‑join monsters) and having strong opinions on integer vs UUIDprimary keys.
- Bonus points for familiarity with Graph Databases.
Cloud, Infra & DevOps
- Solid, production-grade experience on AWS (required).
- Strong knowledge of IaC tooling, automated provisioning, and cloud-native infrastructure design.
- Experience building cloud-native apps using Serverless (Lambda), SNS, SQS, S3, EC2, and event-driven architectures.
- Understanding of AI-supported IaC, automated configuration checks, and intelligent cloud monitoring is a plus.
Containers, Linux & Ecosystem
- Strong Linux fundamentals — you should feel at home in *nix environments.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (required); OpenShift is a bonus.
- Knowledge of event streaming platforms like Kafka is a plus.
Aqua Security is the pioneer in cloud native security. Founded in 2015, Aqua Security is a global late-stage scale-up and the largest pure play cloud native vendor. Aqua helps enterprises see and stop threats across every phase of the software development lifecycle, from dev to cloud and back.
If you’re ready for an exciting opportunity to dive into the hottest cybersecurity category, now is the perfect time to join Aqua! We are a global organization where every Aquarian can make a difference and make a big impact. Aqua also offers great company culture, amazing colleagues, international travel, and lots more!
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
