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R&D Team Lead

Silk Israel · Full-time · Senior

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/.

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