Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform Team (AI)

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Company

Surf AI is an agentic operations platform for enterprise security teams that connects identity, cloud, HR, IT, and SaaS context to drive security remediation with specialized AI agents and human oversight.

What you will do

• Build reusable frameworks and tools for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
• Enable researchers to prepare data, train and evaluate models, and run batch inference.
• Define data models, entities, relationships, and data contracts for research, engineering, and product use cases.
• Manage databases, including backups, recovery, access controls, and customer data isolation.
• Improve data quality, monitoring, reliability, backfills, and production operations, including on-call participation.
• Lead design and code reviews while optimizing distributed processing, queries, storage, and compute costs.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience designing, building, testing, and operating production systems.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, reliability, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Strong experience with Python and SQL, plus Spark or similar distributed processing technologies.
• Solid understanding of databases, data modeling, and data platform fundamentals.
• Experience owning systems from design through deployment and ongoing production operation.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment practices, ideally AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and automated deployments.

Nice to have

• Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Dagster, Airflow, or dbt.
• Experience supporting machine learning workflows or working with researchers and data scientists.
• Familiarity with MLflow, Delta Lake, or Unity Catalog.
• Experience building platforms serving multiple customers.
• Background in identity, cybersecurity data, or modeling relationships across systems.