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

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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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 You’ll 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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4–7 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

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 150,000 - 190,000, plus discretionary annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package aligned to experience and market.