Software Engineering Manager

Oligo is a fast-growing cybersecurity startup transforming how organizations protect their applications, cloud environments, and AI systems at runtime. Backed by top-tier investors including Greenfield Partners, Red Dot Capital Partners, Lightspeed, Ballistic Ventures, and TLV Partners, we’re on a mission to make real-time security a reality.

Oligo’s industry’s leading runtime security platform built to stop attacks in real time without stopping the business. We transform security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, and AI systems. By uncovering the deepest layers of what actually runs in production, Oligo helps organizations prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks.

We are looking for an experienced engineering Manager to drive the development of our CADR (Cloud Application Detection & Response) product, the industry’s most innovative defense system for neutralizing application-layer attacks in real time.

What you’ll be doing

As the leader of our CADR engineering activity, you will be responsible for managing a team of highly skilled engineers and driving the development of innovative, scalable, and high-quality capabilities in our product within. This team is responsible for developing Oligo’s platform for detecting and blocking software attacks in cloud environment.

• Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from design to architecture and implementation, driving the transformation of our MVP into a scalable enterprise-grade solution.
• Lead a team of developers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to drive high performance.
• Work closely with our security researchers, turning innovative security concepts into reality and building the infrastructure that powers research enablement.
• Collaborate closely with research, engineering and customer-facing teams in Oligo.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience leading development teams of at least 8 engineers in the cyber security industry.
• Proven track record of designing and building backend micro-services using modern technologies. In particular, experience with real-time processing pipelines at scale.
• Experience working with security researchers to transform research insights into efficient scalable production-ready features.
• Experience with data processing solutions, relational DBs (e.g. PostgreSQL) and message brokers (e.g. Kafka).
• 6+ years of experience in backend development in cloud-native environments, mainly AWS and container based environments.
• Experience working directly with customers or client-facing teams to understand requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ensure solutions meet their needs.

Requirements

• Strong leadership, mentoring and conflict-resolution abilities. We expect you to demonstrate technical leadership, initiate discussions and help steer our product in the right direction.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to actively contribute to coding efforts and conduct thorough code reviews when necessary.
• Deliver quickly and make effective decisions under pressure.