Backend Team Lead

Description 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 Backend Team Lead at BlinkOps, you will lead a team of talented and experienced engineers. You'll take ownership of a significant part of the Blink platform, driving technical architecture and product delivery. You'll enable security teams to deploy AI security agents that autonomously manage detection, hunting, containment, and response workflows. This role combines technical leadership with active contribution: you'll mentor your team, drive engineering excellence, and shape technical direction, tooling, and workflows to support high-scale product growth. *Please note that this position is located in Israel Your responsibilities Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on quality and rapid delivery Define and evolve the technical vision and roadmap for your team Own end-to-end delivery of business features from concept through production, partnering with Product to ensure successful outcomes Drive your team to business impact, working with product and the field Requirements Strong communication and leadership skills 4+ years of software/backend engineering experience 2+ years in a leadership role Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, Docker, microservices) Hands-on backend development experience (Go, Python, Java, C#, or similar) Expertise operating high-scale SaaS systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure Proven track record building secure, reliable, scalable systems Demonstrated ability to lead feature development end-to-end in collaboration with Product teams