CyberArk
identity security
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at CyberArk. Skills: software engineering, systems design, microservices, AWS, integration systems, connector-style systems, distributed backends, performance, fault tolerance, maintainability. Contribute to architecture and system design for connector services: APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and operational boundaries. Harden and scale the framework and related microservices for performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability”
What You'll Achieve.
improving reliability, performance, or security
Industry & Context.
grounding in software and systems design (abstractions, contracts, failure modes, scalability, and security implications)
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Senior-level experience: approximately 8+ years in software engineering, with sustained ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation, grounding in software and systems design (abstractions, contracts, failure modes, scalability, and security implications), Hands-on experience shipping and operating microservices on AWS in production, Relevant technical depth in integration or connector-style systems (sync and incremental jobs, retries, idempotency, backpressure, rate limits); distributed backends at meaningful scale, Demonstrated impact such as improving reliability, performance, or security with clear active participation in design and production accountability, Excellent communication and collaboration—clear technical writing, constructive code review, and productive partnership across functions, curiosity and learning mindset, including comfort ramping on unfamiliar domains when the problem demands it
Nice to Have
Experience with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, Familiarity with observability platforms (e. g. Datadog: metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, alerting, SLO-oriented workflows), Comfort with AI-assisted / agentic development (e. g. Cursor) for implementation, exploration, and review, Experience mentoring or leveling up others through review, pairing, or technical leadership without people-management responsibility, Identity or IGA-adjacent domain knowledge - user and entitlement lifecycle, provisioning and deprovisioning, access reviews, integrations with HRIS / ITSM / directories, SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, and familiarity with audit, compliance, and least-privilege concerns in access systems
What You'll Do.
Contribute to architecture and system design for connector services: APIs
and operational boundaries
Harden and scale the framework and related microservices for performance
Partner with product and engineering peers on technical trade-offs
and production readiness
Participate in code review
and incident help raise engineering quality across the team
test and maintain how our platform integrates with enterprise and Saas systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product and engineering peers; Participate in design discussion; productive partnership across functions; mentoring or leveling up others through review, pairing, or technical leadership
Communication Scope
Excellent communication; clear technical writing; constructive code review
Full Job Description
About CyberArk [CyberArk](https://www.cyberark.com/), 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](https://www.cyberark.com/). Copyright © 2026 CyberArk Software. All Rights Reserved. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Role Overview We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join a small team of senior engineers building the connectors framework for our Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) product. In this role you will help code, design, secure, improve, scale, test and maintain how our platform integrates with enterprise and Saas systems. Key Responsibilities * Contribute to architecture and system design for connector services: APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and operational boundaries. * Harden and scale the framework and related microservices for performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability. * Partner with product and engineering peers on technical trade-offs, roadmap alignment, and production readiness. * Participate in code review, design discussion, and incident learning; help raise engineering quality across the team. Required Qualifications * Senior-level experience: approximately 8+ years in software engineering, with sustained ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation * Strong grounding
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