Software Escalation Engineer (Python)

Varonis • Morrisville, NC

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Company: Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS) secures AI and the data that powers it. The Varonis platform gives organizations automated visibility and control over their critical data wherever it lives and ensures safe and trustworthy AI from code to runtime. Backed by 24x7x365 managed detection and response, Varonis gives thousands of organizations worldwide the confidence to adopt AI, reduce data exposure, and stop AI-powered threats.
The Role: We are searching for a highly motivated Escalation Engineer (Tier-IV) to join our growing team! The Escalation Engineer must learn fast and adopt to quickly changing technology and to provide top tier Engineering solution for our product line. This position will focus on investigating customer issues of our products and provide timely resolutions, while collaborating with our development teams and support.
The Escalation Engineer must learn fast and adapt to quickly changing technology in order to provide top-tier support for our product line. This position will investigate customer issues with our products and provide timely resolution while coordinating with our support and development teams.
The Location: We are considering candidates who are able to work by hybrid model, located within physical proximity to Morrisville, NC.

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent from known university.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in developing Enterprise-level Python Applications.
• Experience working with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of IT Fundamentals (Networking / Security / Storage).
• Strong understanding of REST API, scalability, and security concepts (OAuth2, JWT, API Gateways).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code and monitoring/observability tools.
• Hands-on experience with AI projects and applications.
• Fluent English (written and verbal).

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with AWS, Azure, or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS architectures
• Familiarity with additional languages (PHP, Angular/JS, Swift/Objective‑C, Kotlin/Java).
• Previous customer-facing technical positions.
• Familiarity with Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical point of contact for customer‑impacting issues.
• Investigate and resolve issues in Python services.
• Analyze behavior across services, databases, messaging, and infrastructure.
• Perform testing on UI and performance.
• Drive root cause analysis in collaboration with engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Provide training and technical guidance to internal teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees