Engineering Team Lead

The role

You will lead a team building scalable, production-grade systems at the intersection of backend engineering, Agentic AI, and cybersecurity. You will stay hands-on with Python development, system architecture, and code reviews to develop AI-powered capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers
• Drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services and AI-powered product capabilities
• Stay hands-on with Python development, system architecture, code reviews, and technical problem-solving
• Take ownership of team technical decisions, engineering quality, and delivery
• Build and improve systems that support AI agent workflows, integrations, and security investigation capabilities
• Design and develop distributed, cloud-native services
• Collaborate with other engineering teams, Product, and Security
• Translate product and technical requirements into engineering plans
• Improve engineering practices, testing, observability, and production readiness
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical initiatives

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a strong background in backend development
• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a software engineering team
• Strong hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and distributed architectures
• Experience designing and developing production-grade systems
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems
• Experience with LLMs, GenAI technologies, or modern AI frameworks
• Strong programming skills
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, system design, and engineering best practices
• Experience working with production environments, including performance, reliability, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Strong communication skills
• Professional fluency in English and Hebrew

Nice to have

• Background in cybersecurity, SOC, threat detection, incident response, or security investigation workflows
• Experience working in early-stage startups or high-growth product companies
• Experience leading engineering teams developing AI-powered products
• Python preferred

About the company

Conifers is transforming security operations centers (SOCs) with CognitiveSOC, its AI SOC platform. The company is building an AI-native security platform that enables autonomous agents to investigate real-world threats at a massive scale.