AI Engineering Tech Lead

Akeyless Security is seeking an AI Engineering Tech Lead to define and drive AI-native engineering practices, lead the architecture and development of scalable, intelligent systems, and embed AI across the software development lifecycle.

Location: Israel

Responsibilities

• Define and codify AI-native engineering practices, patterns, and guidelines to elevate the software development lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering an AI-first engineering culture across teams.
• Architect and lead the development of AI-native system frameworks that emphasize modularity, extensibility, and adaptive scalability.
• Identify architectural risks, systemic bottlenecks, and long‑term scalability concerns - and proactively drive solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Customer success, Security and Business stakeholders to ensure technical solutions deliver real business impact.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience (6y+) with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native technologies.
• Proven ability to leverage AI-assisted engineering to drive operational excellence, from generating robust test suites to automating the detection of scalability bottlenecks in distributed systems.
• A pragmatic mindset that balances engineering excellence with business needs.
• Strong proven technical skills building features end-to-end and passion for large-scale production services, data modeling and databases.
• Strong experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and a passion for building highly observable, resilient systems.
• Strong communication skills, empathetic, and someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment.
• Prior experience in deploying and maintaining a high scale, multi-region production-grade system.