Senior Platform Engineer (Backend)

Description About us The industry’s only Agentic Security Automation Platform - Blink enables you to automate all aspects of your security operations by combining AI security agents with deterministic workflows. Retain full control as you deploy your own custom army of virtual security employees - each tasked and responsible for managing specific jobs and capable of taking autonomous decisions. These AI agents leverage the deterministic security workflows assigned to them or by calling upon peer agents as required. Blink empowers security teams to rapidly operationalize response to zero-day and emerging threats by automating detection ingestion, cross-environment hunting, containment, and coordination with human stakeholders. Join our fast growing team, and help put the power of automation in the hands of every security professional. About the Role As a Senior Platform Engineer (Backend) at BlinkOps, you will play a key role in shaping the core infrastructure and architecture of our platform. You will be deeply involved in hands-on development, contribute to technical design, and help drive engineering excellence. In this role, you will collaborate with other engineers, share best practices, and take part in building scalable, high-quality backend systems. *Please note that this position is located in Israel Your responsibilities Design, develop, and test cloud-native microservices and backend components with high standards of scalability, reliability, and security Own key areas of the platform's infrastructure and contribute to the architecture of enterprise-grade systems Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions Work across a modern tech stack including cloud services, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines Drive best practices in code quality, system design, observability (logs, metrics, tracing), and testing Stay up to date with emerging technologies and help evaluate tools that support platform evolution Share knowledge through code reviews and technical discussions, fostering a culture of continuous improvement Requirements 5+ years of backend development experience, with a proven track record in fast-paced, production environments Strong understanding of internet protocols and OS fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, I/O, resource management) Hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture, including Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices Proficiency in Go (preferred) or other backend languages such as Python, Java, or C# Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CDK Familiarity with observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) and designing for production reliability Knowledge of databases (SQL & NoSQL) and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS); experience with distributed systems concepts is a plus