Senior Backend Engineer - Core Engineering

Cyera   All Jobs Senior Backend Engineer – Core Engineering R&D Tel Aviv Full-time Description About CyeraCome join the company building the security operating model for the age of AI. AI has changed how data is used — and security must change with it. Cyera's mission is to empower businesses to accelerate AI Adoption by defining a holistic approach to securing AI - from data to access to model. Instead of perimeter controls and static policies, Cyera provides a unified control plane that understands relationships between data, access, and behaviors across humans, systems, and AI. Backed by the world’s leading investors and working with a large and growing list of Fortune 1000 companies, we are looking for world-class talent to join us as we usher in the new era of data and AI security.About The TeamWe’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join Cyera’s CORE Engineering teams — a small, senior group responsible for the internal foundations on which the entire product is built. This is a high-impact, cross-organization role. Everything you build is used by 200+ engineers and affects every service in production: microservice frameworks, common services, databases, inter-service and cross-cluster communication, build and CI pipelines, deployment flows, and release processes — all at high scale, high speed, and production grade. The scope, priorities, and scale challenges evolve constantly as Cyera grows. You’ll be expected to adapt quickly, make pragmatic technical decisions, and design systems that can evolve without slowing the organization down. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys working close to the foundations, collaborating broadly, and owning complex systems in fast-changing environments.What You’ll DoDesign, build, and evolve core backend infrastructure with organization-wide impactOwn shared frameworks, services, and libraries used across the companyWork closely with multiple product teams as requirements, scale, and constraints changeContinuously improve systems to support growth, new use cases, and increased scaleTake full ownership of production systems, from design through deployment and operationCore FrameworksBuild and evolve Cyera’s NestJS service framework and shared modulesDesign and maintain application-level Kafka infrastructure and usage patternsContribute to and maintain Cyera’s TypeORM integration and internal forkImplement and enforce global exception handling and service standardsHelp define and evolve deployment standards across servicesProduction & ScaleOwn production-grade backend components designed for continuous growth and changeDesign and evolve autoscaling mechanisms for async and event-driven workloadsDebug and resolve complex production issues across servicesImprove database performance, scaling strategies, and migration safetyContinuously refine monitoring and alerting as system behavior evolvesArchitecture & Cross-Team CollaborationCollaborate with DevOps and product teams on evolving infrastructure architectureEnsure alignment between application code and continuous deployment infrastructureAct as a technical partner to product teams building on CORE infrastructureParticipate in company-wide discussions on engineering standards and best practicesRelease & DeliveryContribute to and improve the company’s release processesSupport teams with safe, optimized migrations during continuous growthWhat You Bring6+ years of experience in backend or core systems engineeringStrong experience building and operating large, evolving production systemsProven ability to work effectively in fast-changing, ambiguous environmentsExperience contributing to or owning shared frameworks, platforms, or internal toolingSolid understanding of CI/CD, production operations, and observabilityStrong collaboration skills and comfort working across many teamsHigh sense of ownership and...