Software Dev Team Lead - Polar Security

Job Description
Your main duties will include leading a team of talented backend engineers, designing and implementing new features, optimizing and maintaining existing code, and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other team leaders, developers, designers, and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.

What you’ll do:
•    Hands on leading of a team of software engineers supporting backend development on a new product in the AI Security space
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to identify potential automation opportunities and define project requirements.
•    You will take part in the architecture, design and implementation
•    Write clean, concise code that is stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
•    Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
•    Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
•    Write code that meets the production requirements and design specifications and anticipate potential errors/issues.

 

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
•    1+ years of experience as a team leader
•    3 + years of experience and a great passion for software engineering and code which includes:
      - Cloud-based platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud)
      -  Enterprise-related development (scalability, performance)
      -  Dockers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift technologies
      -  SaaS platforms
      -  Back-end development experience, preferably in NodeJS and Typescript
      -  Micro-service architecture & cloud-native services
      - Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins, Git
•    Excellent communication skills, self-managed, and a team player

 



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Introduction
IBM recently announced that it acquired Polar Security, a DSPM pioneer. Polar’s solution, which is now part of IBM Guardium, automatically sensitive data across cloud service providers such as AWS cloud and SaaS apps and identifies vulnerabilities.

IBM is now working on a new Guardium AI Security product. This new product will allow customers to automatically discover where they have AI deployments across their cloud and SaaS environments, detect vulnerabilities to improve posture, and finally protect the AI deployments.

This position will be leading a team for the new AI security product that will work in parallel with the DSPM team, which originated from Polar.

We are seeking a skilled hands on backend team lead to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for leading developers, developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

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About Business Unit
IBM recently announced that it acquired Polar Security, a DSPM pioneer. Polar’s agentless solution automatically finds unknown and sensitive data across the cloud, including structured and unstructured assets, SaaS apps, and within cloud service providers such as AWS. Once discovered, Polar classifies the data, maps the potential and actual flow of that data, and identifies vulnerabilities, such as misconfigurations, over-entitlements, and behavior that violates policy or regulations. IBM intends to integrate Polar’s DSPM technology into IBM Security’s Guardium family of data security products. Locations in Tel Aviv, Israel and Jan Jose, CA.

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