Senior Software Engineer – Backend (Machine Identity Security, SaaS Control Plane)

CyberArk is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Machine Identity Security team focused on backend systems that power the control plane of our platform.

In this role you will design build and operate scalable backend services and APIs that enable secure machine identity and certificate lifecycle management at scale. You will work on distributed systems handling high request volumes real-time interactions and multi-tenant SaaS environments.

This role is ideal for engineers who are strong in backend development and system behavior and who want to work on complex production-grade systems while growing their system design depth.

What Youll Do

• Design build and maintain backend services and APIs that power control plane functionality
• Develop scalable reliable services operating in distributed cloud-native environments
• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions focusing on scalability performance and maintainability
• Build integrations between the control plane and external systems (e.g. Terraform Ansible enterprise platforms)
• Optimize backend services for performance including latency throughput and concurrency
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across distributed systems and services
• Work closely with product platform and security teams to deliver new capabilities
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving engineering quality and standards
• Support CI/CD pipelines deployment processes and system reliability improvements

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Qualifications :

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• 47 years of professional experience in backend software development
• Strong experience building backend services and APIs using Java (primary); Go is a plus
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP)
• Solid understanding of system performance concurrency and scalability concepts
• Experience working with production systems including debugging and issue resolution
• Experience integrating services with APIs messaging systems or data pipelines (e.g. Kafka)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows

Nice to Have

• Experience with identity authentication or security systems (SAML OAuth PKI certificates)
• Experience working in SaaS or multi-tenant environments
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible)
• Experience working with high-throughput or real-time systems

What Sets You Apart

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to reason through system behavior
• Ability to contribute to system design with guidance from senior engineers
• Ownership mindset for features and services
• Effective collaboration across engineering product and platform teams

Additional Information :

Additional Information

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected Veteran status.

Compensation includes base salary 150000 - 190000 plus discretionary annual bonus equity and a comprehensive benefits package aligned to experience and market.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time