Staff Software Engineer
- Full-time
Company Description
About CyberArk
CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.
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Job Description
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify new opportunities and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects.
- Collaborate with technological experts in the same domain across other teams in the organization, driving cross-team collaboration for direct projects.
- Take a leading role in features or refactors within the specific domain and align the team with the CyberArk Tech Radar.
- Solve challenging and complex issues or bugs in their domain of expertise within the group.
- Review implementations related to their domain of expertise.
- Teach and guide developers in the group.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Code, test, debug, and implement solutions into production.
- Develop and review unit test cases to ensure comprehensive unit testing.
- Diagnose and fix product issues found internally or in the field.
- Interface with Support to handle customer escalation issues.
- Mentor junior team members in their assigned tasks and technical skill development.
- Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with any programming language as needed.
- Maintain critical thinking and awareness of industry trends and tools.
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Qualifications
Critical Skills
- 7-10 years of experience in enterprise-scale application development and hands-on software development, with recent experience preferably in a cloud/SaaS environment.
- BS in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
- Experience working end-end SSDLC, work and support production deployments (and pipelines of developed software, support bugs, test case automation)
Familiar with AI assisted software development, mentor juniors in the team for Productivity improvements, Security Champion/SSDLS - Expertise and hands-on experience with web services (e.g., REST, SOAP).
- Proficient in React or Angular for building modern web applications.
- Expert in Python, with at least 7+ experience (e.g., candidates with primary expertise in languages like Java but with Python experience are acceptable).
- Experience with any cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Familiarity with general software development release lifecycle, source code management, and defect management methodologies.
- Ability to complete highly detailed tasks with strict attention to detail, quality, and timeliness.
- Strong organizational and self-management skills.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Proficient understanding of SQL and relational databases.
Additional Information
Highly Desired Skills
- Knowledge of recent/popular programming language(s), paradigms, constructs, and idioms is a plus.
- Working experience with AWS and/or Azure.
- Knowledge and experience with authentication standards such as OpenID or OAuth.
- Solid understanding of security and networking implementation and best practices.
- Knowledge and experience with serverless architectures and technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or GCP Cloud Functions).
- Staying current on the latest industry tools and trends, including AI and agentic based developments, learnings
Education/Experience
- 5+ years of experience with Python.
- 3+ years of experience with React.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to and learn new programming languages as needed.