Senior Backend Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (CTI): Building infrastructure powering AI-first Cyber Threat Intelligence platform with an accent on agentic AI workloads and large-scale data orchestration. Focus on designing scalable systems for harvesting threat data, contextualizing intelligence, and serving insights via APIs and services.

Tel Aviv

Company

hirify.global redefines cyber defense by combining AI and human expertise to protect nations and critical infrastructure with proprietary Cyber Language Models.

What you will do

• Build tooling and infrastructure enabling AI agents to consume and reason over threat data.
• Develop systems harvesting data from open and dark web sources, cross-referencing signals, and contextualizing intelligence into actionable insights.
• Serve curated CTI data to dashboards, internal services, and agents across the platform.
• Instrument workflows with tracing and metrics for production visibility and debugging.
• Design and scale agent-based systems with robust evaluation frameworks.
• Create developer tooling improving usability for other engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience with Python.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines, data lakes, or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems, consistency, failure modes, and cross-service debugging.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and tooling (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with NoSQL databases.
• High independence and ownership in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience building distributed systems.
• Data management at scale including ETL, data quality, and governance.
• Experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or related domains.
• Familiarity with AI or agentic application patterns.
• Experience with graph and NoSQL databases.
• Startup or small-team experience.