Careers

Silk is a US based company backed by Insight Partners, Hetz Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, and some of the most well known and respected security luminaries, such as Shlomo Kramer, Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar. 

Silk is tackling and solving the biggest pain points in the cyber security industry today- prioritization of vulnerabilities and managing the resolution process - all while taking a very novel and revolutionary approach to these daunting problems.  

The company was founded by three security veterans who held key positions at companies like Palo Alto Networks, Goldman Sachs and Meta (Facebook).

Open Positions at Silk

If you’re ready to join an amazing team of people who inspire and drive each other to do the best every day, we are ready for you.

At Silk, we are aware that all it takes is the right people and team to redefine all boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to deliver the most innovative and customer focused product is going to set us apart.

We are hiring for sales or marketing roles. To learn more, feel free to reach out to us at careers@silk.security.

User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer
Location flexible
Apply Now

We are looking for an experienced user experience designer to join our growing team. As part of a highly collaborative group of creative problem solvers with a passion for innovation, you will build intuitive, beautiful, and meaningful products that are solving one of the major pains for organizations of all sizes. In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional product teams to create experience led, end to end stories. You must be comfortable engaging with customers, partners, and internal teams.

Your Impact
Closely collaborate with the product management and engineering teams to identify product vision and goals
Talk directly with customers to understand their needs, goals, and motivations
Conceptualize and define an end to end design strategy that supports customer needs and business goals - Ideate detailed stories and user flows illustrating the solution
Advocate user needs throughout the development lifecycle in an agile, iterative environment to ensure problem - solution fit
Verify and improve on designs through reviews, validations and formal usability testing with end users
Become a subject matter expert with the ability to understand the latest architecture, technology, solution, and market trends as well as competitive offerings related to cloud computing

Your Experience
Degree/Master’s degree in Design, HCI or related field from reputable design institutes or equivalent military experience required
5 to 7 years of experience in UX design 
Online design portfolio - Must have requirement
Experience in working with tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite
Defining end to end workflows and analyzing user flows
Skills in interaction design with a solid command of user centered design process
Ability to tell simple user stories illustrating solutions
Team player in a high achievement-oriented environment
Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills
Agile, adaptable, and capable of delivering new products and features
Comfort working with developers in the presentation layer
Experience with user research
Good aesthetic sense
Strong prototyping skills desired
Experience in user experience and interaction design for web applications or services
Background in user-centered design principles across desktop, mobile, and web platforms
Aptitude for designing large-scale web-based applications
Experience with designing SaaS services is a plus
Cyber Security experience

Backend Engineering Manager

Backend Engineering Manager
Location flexible
Apply Now

Reporting to the CTO of the company, as the manager for the backend engineering team, you will have responsibility for building, managing, and monitoring backend services at scale. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a  talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively, and collaborate in a fully distributed team all while providing mentorship and leadership to the team.

Your Impact
Shape and communicate the technical strategy for the team.
Ensure that the team is on track to deliver on its goals, course correcting where necessary.
Facilitate technical design sessions, retrospectives, 1:1s etc.
Take responsibility for the ongoing professional development of the team.
Contribute to the hiring strategy and participate in interviews and hiring decisions.
Act as a point of contact for other areas of the business.
Relentlessly remove impediments blocking the team.
Designing and developing the Silk Platform
Designing and implementing an architecture that scales while maintaining quality when facing environments with thousands of entities
Learning and utilizing the latest technologies in the market - cloud infrastructure, serverless, containers orchestration, graph and more
Enable complex relational queries and value rendering on resources scanned by managing a graph representation of resources and their relationships
Generate insights for the user based on his data to better their overall security posture using machine learning, Open Source, Graph, Machine Learning, Drift Detection, Cloud Services
Manage a group of highly talented and motivated engineers

Your Experience
A degree in Computer Science Engineering or similar
6+ Years of experience as a developer
2+ years of management experience
Extensive knowledge of PythonArchitecture Skills - Scalability and Extensibility DB knowledge (SQL, No SQL): MySQL,  Postgres, MongoDBBackend framework (Django/Flask/FastAPI)Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other cloud provider
Advantage: experience with live production systems utilizing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) - Terraform,  Cloud Formation, etc.
Independent, autodidact with excellent problem solving and passion to learn cutting edge technologies

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager - (50% engineering, 50% IC)
Location flexible
Apply Now

We are looking for a skilled and hands-on Cybersecurity Engineering Manager to lead a team of 6-8 engineers responsible for building and maintaining a data pipeline that filters through millions of cybersecurity findings and assets. As the Engineering Manager, you will be directly involved in technical aspects while overseeing the team's efforts.

Your Impact
Technical Leadership: Lead and guide the team in designing, developing, and implementing the data pipeline to handle vast amounts of cybersecurity-related data efficiently
Hands-On Involvement: Actively participate in the development and maintenance of the data pipeline, contributing your expertise and technical skills to the team
Team Management: Mentor and support team members, set clear objectives, and foster a collaborative work environment to achieve project goals

Your Experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field
6+ years of experience in software engineering or a related technical role
Proven track record (1+ years) of leadership and hands-on experience
Proficiency in programming Python
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills
Cyber security experience is a plus
Data pipelines experiences is a plus

Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer
Location flexible
Apply Now

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will collaborate with the product managers, UX designers, and the rest of the engineering organization to design and deliver the most innovative solution that generates insights from the customers’ data and empowers the organization to better their security posture. You will architect, design, and implement application features, introduce new tools and libraries; and help solve the most challenging technical problems within the engineering UI team. You will have complete ownership of features, from development through delivery

Your Impact ​​​​
Implement end-to-end features(from Code / Architecture decision to UI/UX flows).
Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Performance optimization, accessibility, and usability

Your Experience
A degree in Computer Science Engineering or similar
5+ years of full stack, with front end focus experience in an enterprise environment
Profound knowledge of Type Script, React, Tailwind and MongoDB
Expert proficiency in UI layouts
Profound knowledge of state management (Tanstack, Redux, etc)
Capable of rapidly generating UI prototypes and constructively integrating feedback
Solid experience in using a complex REST API
Experience with AWS or any one of the major cloud providers Cyber Security experience is a plus

Software Engineer

Software Engineer
Location flexible
Apply Now

If you are a results-driven Software Engineer with a passion for data pipelines, Python, and cyber security, and you thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to the advancement of cutting-edge cyber security solutions that protect businesses worldwide.

Your Impact ​​​​
Design and implement robust data pipelines to ensure seamless flow and integration of critical information for cyber security applications
Utilize expertise in Python to build efficient, scalable, and maintainable data pipelines, adhering to best coding practices
Lead the team in building large-scale systems that deliver reliability, data integrity, and high availability
Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, incorporating them into pipeline development for enhanced performance

Your Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, specializing in data pipeline development
Expert proficiency in Python
Proven track record in designing and implementing data pipelines for cyber security applications
Experience in building large-scale systems with a focus on performance and scalability
Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills

Data Scientist

Data Scientist
Location flexible
Apply Now

We are looking for a motivated, intelligent, hardworking and creative person to join the Silk team as a Data Scientist. 

Your Impact
Learn how organizations tackle remediation of security findings
Gain hands-on experience with building production-grade ML/DL models for prioritization and deduplication of findings
Directly impact the detection efficacy through ML/DL models that can predict false positives
Work with data scientists, engineers, actuaries and cyber security experts to Identify, research, prototype, evaluate and integrate research advances into the Silk platform
Collaborate with cross-team members to convert your research into multiple products, patents, research publications, blogs etc.
As part of the Data Science team you will directly impact the product by modeling complex problems and developing production software

Your Experience
BS/MS in Data Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related fields is required 
Expert knowledge of Big Data Analysis and ML/DL algorithms techniques
Track record of successfully building ML/DL models with high accuracy and low false alarms
Good understanding of standard ML/DL toolkits (Spark, SQL, Pandas, Sklearn etc)
Be able to interpret the ML/DL results and improve the model to the required quality level
Good understanding of general cyber security concepts and methodologies
Ability to write production software in Python and conversant with AWS
Experience with NLP
Excellent communicator and team player

See how Silk can change the way your security team resolves risks.