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Full-time
5-10

Senior Software Engineer - Back End Platform Engineer (Machine Identity Security) hybrid

4/9/2026

Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs for the Machine Identity Security platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain distributed systems and ensure high availability through on-call rotations.

Salary

116000 - 185000 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

201-500 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Venafi, a CyberArk company, offers the most comprehensive solutions to address critical challenges in PKI, certificate management and workload identity management. Through centralized visibility and automation, we help customers monitor and secure any machine identity, anywhere, across extended enterprise networks. As an innovative leader, we solve today’s greatest machine identity challenges while anticipating those of tomorrow. By combining Venafi’s best-in-class machine identity management with CyberArk’s leading identity security capabilities, these two category creators together establish the world’s first platform for end-to-end machine identity security at enterprise scale. For more information about Venafi, visit https://www.venafi.com. To learn more about CyberArk, visit https://www.cyberark.com.
About the Role

Company Description

About CyberArk:
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets. To learn more about CyberArk, visit our CyberArk blogs or follow us on X, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Job Description

CyberArk is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Machine Identity Security team, focused on backend systems and platform integrations. In this role, you will design and build scalable backend services that support certificate lifecycle management and secure machine identity at scale.

You will work on distributed systems, APIs, and integrations that power high-throughput, reliable cloud services, partnering closely with platform and product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs for the Machine Identity Security platform
  • Contribute to backend architecture and system design, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Build integrations and tooling that support platform extensibility, including APIs, SDKs, and system-to-system integrations
  • Develop and operate distributed systems supporting high-scale, multi-tenant environments
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including platform, security, and infrastructure to deliver backend capabilities
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across distributed services
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation
  • Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems, ensuring high availability, timely incident response, and overall service reliability

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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend engineering.
  • Proven experience building modern, scalable backend or distributed systems.
  • Experience with AI-first development.
  • Strong proficiency with Golang, Java, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Knowledge of x509, PKI, and certificate issuance protocols is a strong plus.
  • Excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative, high performance engineering environment.

Additional Information

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. 

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time. 

The salary range for this position is $116,000 – $185,000/year, plus commissions or discretionary bonus, which will be based on the employee’s performance. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits. 

Key Skills
GolangJavaGraphQLPostgreSQLBackend engineeringDistributed systemsAPI developmentSystem architectureCloud servicesCI/CDAutomationx509PKICertificate lifecycle managementMachine identity security
Categories
TechnologySoftwareSecurity & SafetyEngineering
Benefits
MedicalDentalVisionFinancial benefitsDiscretionary bonus
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