Java Backend Engineer, Platform Team

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

We’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries - from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace - and from manufacturing to engineering, we work together to build a future we can all trust.

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

We’re proud to be recognized as one of Israel’s Top 50 High-Tech Companies to Work For in 2025 (Dun & Bradstreet) and offer a flexible hybrid work model from our Rehovot office.

We are looking for a Java Backend Engineer, Platform Team. Our Data Platform team builds large-scale, cloud-native systems that process cybersecurity data in real time.

We design for scale, reliability, and performance, transforming billions of events into actionable insights that protect customers worldwide.

Beyond backend excellence, we also develop dashboards and intuitive web interfaces that allow customers to visualize, explore, and act on their security data.

If you’re passionate about distributed systems, data engineering, and building meaningful products, you’ll feel right at home here.

Our Tech Stack:

 Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

 Frontend: React (data visualization, dashboards, admin interfaces)

 DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, monitoring, and observability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and scale our next-generation data platform for processing security events and logs.

• Develop high-performance microservices and streaming pipelines using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS.

• Architect and implement event-driven, real-time analytics solutions.

• Collaborate on frontend dashboards and visualization tools that help customers understand their data and make faster, data-driven decisions.

• Work across the stack when needed — contributing to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and frontend components to deliver complete, production-ready solutions.

• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.

• Take ownership, mentor others, and help shape a culture of technical excellence, empathy, and teamwork.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of backend development experience (Java, Spring Boot, microservices).

• Strong background in cloud-native and distributed architectures.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Experience building scalable, event-driven APIs and data processing pipelines.

• Familiarity with frontend development (React) – advantage.

• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD, or cloud infrastructure – bonus.

• Proven ability to mentor, collaborate, and deliver high-quality code.

• A genuine passion for teamwork, continuous learning, and doing things the right way.

Why Join Us:

• Impact: Your work helps protect organizations from real-world cyber threats.

• Growth: We invest in your learning, career development, and technical mastery.

• Culture: Collaboration, integrity, and empathy drive everything we do — good humans come first.

• Innovation: Opportunity to build cutting-edge systems and customer-facing interfaces that shape the future of cybersecurity analytics.

• Flexibility: Hybrid work model with strong support for work-life balance.

• People: Smart, humble, and kind teammates who truly care.

Thales, champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.