Backend Team Lead- Core Team

Zafran is looking for an experienced Core Team Lead to lead our core pipeline team. In this role, you will be responsible for zafran’s secret sauce- building and scaling systems that processing millions of assets data a day and network data across complex environments.

You will work on challenges related to networking, internet-facing assets, cloud environments, and security exposure analysis, while leading a strong team of engineers and vulnerability researchers.

About Zafran:

Our Mission: To stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.

What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 90% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and utilizes Agentic Capabilities and your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 10% most likely to be exploited.

​​Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations.

We’re serious about our mission- so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way!

What you will do:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers working on core pipeline infrastructure.
• Design and build scalable systems that process large volumes of security and network data.
• Work extensively with databases and large-scale data processing.
• Model and analyze network environments across complex infrastructures.
• Develop capabilities to understand internet-facing assets and the type of traffic reaching them.
• Integrate and process data coming from multiple security products across the organization.
• Work closely with cloud providers and cloud-based environments.
• Build and maintain systems that interact with firewalls and network security controls.
• Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams on core platform capabilities.

• Proven experience leading engineering teams (and managing multiple engineers).
• Strong experience building scalable systems and data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience working with databases and large-scale data environments.
• Deep understanding of networking concepts and network architectures.
• Experience working with firewalls and network security controls.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity and the vulnerability landscape.
• Experience working with cloud providers and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to work in complex environments that process data from multiple security systems.
• - Proven experience leading and mentoring a software development team, including supporting engineers’ technical growth and guiding team members in complex development challenges

Experience with the following is a plus

• Experience working on internet-facing infrastructure analysis.
• Experience modeling large-scale enterprise networks.
• Background in cybersecurity platforms or security products.
• Experience building high-scale security or infrastructure systems