Platform Team Leader

Stream Security’s platform constantly models enterprises’ cloud environments, empowering security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in real time. Leveraging an event-driven architecture, the platform pinpoints how threats emerge and demystifies the impact of remediating them instantly.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We're backed by top global top-tier VCs well positioned to execute our vision. We seek excellent individuals to join our journey and build a legacy.

This is a rare opportunity to join a running startup in a critical time and position. You will join a small but powerful R&D team that is ambitious and dynamic. We take pride in creating a hugely impactful product that is being built at the highest level of craft and execution and is already delighting multiple customers.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow Stream Security’s Platform team, combining hands-on technical leadership with mentorship, hiring, and people development.
• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of the company’s platform infrastructure, with direct impact on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with Product and R&D to define platform requirements and deliver secure, production-grade solutions.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of platform delivery, including architecture, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness.
• Ensure high availability and operational excellence through monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Build internal platforms and tooling that enable engineering and customer-facing teams to move fast and safely.

Requirements -Must

• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, give clear feedback, influence without authority, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• 1+ years of experience leading or managing a Platform / DevOps team in a startup or fast-paced environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Platform / DevOps engineer operating production systems.
• 1+ years of software development experience using a high-level language (Python or Go – advantage).
• Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including networking, Helm charts, and autoscaling.
• Strong experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Solid background in Linux administration and Bash scripting.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
• Experience working with databases (Aurora RDS is an advantage).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog.
• Strong ownership mindset, ability to operate with ambiguity, and willingness to get hands-on when needed.

Advantages

• Experience building internal platforms or self-service tooling for engineering teams.
• Background in high-scale or distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets management, least privilege).
• Familiarity with startup growth challenges — scaling systems, teams, and processes.
• Experience in cloud integrations.
• Experience leading incident response and running blameless postmortems.
• Previous work in security or cybersecurity products.