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R&D Team Lead

Silk

Silk

IT
Yokne'am Illit, Israel
Posted on Jan 12, 2025

About The Position

Would you like to lead an amazing team that touches the core of our product? Our Data Path group is looking for a Team Lead to get with us to the next level.

Our R&D works in Agile methodology. You will lead a scrum team of ~10 people (Software, QA and Automation Engineers).

Responsibilities

  • Leading end-to-end development of Silk's products and features, from design through implementation, and onto the release of enterprise-level software.
  • Solving diverse, complex problems in a unique, scalable, distributed system.
  • Working in a highly multithreaded environment with uncompromised performance.
  • Analyze and improve performance, scalability and stability of Silk's products, environments, and tools.
  • Continuously learn and evaluate new technologies in an ongoing effort to perfect our products.
  • We're looking for someone who is both a people-person as well as highly technical and able to dig into an abundance of unknown asynchronous code to find solutions.

Requirements

  • Managerial experience - at least 2 years as R&D Team Lead.
  • Experience in SW development and system-level programming.
  • Experience in a Linux working environment.
  • Experience in multi-threading and object-oriented programming.
  • Experience in C/C++ programming.
  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills - Hebrew & English.

Advantages

  • Experience with Agile methodology.
  • Experience in enterprise storage.
  • Experience with distributed systems.

About Silk

Silk gives demanding workloads 10x faster performance on the cloud compared to native cloud alone. The Silk Cloud Platform is a virtualization layer that sits between the underlying cloud infrastructure and customers’ workloads. Without refactoring, workloads such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and industry-specific applications can move onto the cloud and massively improve user experience. Industry leaders in e-commerce, software publishing, FinTech, and healthcare, trust Silk with their mission-critical workloads to get the ultra-fast speeds their customers demand. Silk is headquartered in Needham, MA. To learn more, visit https://silk.us/.