AI Engineering Team Lead

Conifers.AI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Conifers.ai is transforming security operations centers (SOCs) with CognitiveSOC™, its AI SOC platform, enabling enterprises and MSSPs to achieve SOC excellence. By leveraging agentic AI, Conifers helps security teams investigate complex, multi-tier incidents with speed, accuracy, and trust. Led by seasoned cybersecurity leaders and backed by SYN Ventures, PICUS Capital, and others, the company brings deep industry knowledge and innovation to an increasingly AI-driven threat landscape. We’re building an AI-native security platform where autonomous agents investigate real-world threats at a massive scale. We’re looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Team Lead to drive the architecture and delivery of the core production systems powering these investigations. You’ll lead a strong team while staying deep in the code, turning advanced AI concepts into reliable, scalable software used in the real world .

Requirements

• Proven experience leading backend engineering teams, with 3+ years in a leadership role, including mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and delivering AI-powered systems into production.
•  5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade backend or distributed systems
• Proven track record designing, building, and scaling multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS platforms
• Hands-on experience developing or integrating AI-driven systems, LLM-based workflows, or autonomous agents in real products
• Strong proficiency in Python for backend services and system design
• Deep understanding of distributed architectures, including microservices, containers, messaging systems, and scalable datastores
• Experience with system design, scalability, reliability, and production operations
• Strong product sense and pragmatic technical decision-making
• High ownership mindset with a bias for action and accountability
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments with changing priorities
• Clear communicator with full professional fluency in English and Hebrew

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a technical leadership or team lead role
• Experience working with AI agent frameworks, orchestration systems, or GenAI infrastructure
• Background in cybersecurity, threat detection, or security investigation systems
• Experience working in a startup or high-growth product company

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers building our AI-powered investigation platform, where autonomous agents analyze and respond to real-world security events
• Own end-to-end delivery of core systems from architecture and planning through production deployment and ongoing reliability
• Apply advanced LLM and agent-based AI techniques in production, translating cutting-edge approaches into robust, scalable features
• Stay hands-on with Python backend development , system design, and architectural decisions
• Design and evolve distributed, cloud-native services that operate reliably at scale
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to turn complex needs into practical technical solutions
• Bring clarity, structure, and technical leadership to day-to-day execution in a fast-moving environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed