We are building an AI Access Security Platform - a sophisticated system that enables secure, policy-driven access to web and AI services without requiring endpoint agents. This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the most strategic security initiatives at Check Point, directly shaping how organizations securely connect to modern web and AI-powered applications at global scale.

As a senior technical leader, you will own the end-to-end technical design, architecture, and operational maturity of this platform. You will work at the intersection of networking, Cloud security, and AI-driven inspection, driving execution across multiple teams while setting technical direction for a complex, distributed security system. This is a high-impact role where you will influence architecture, product direction, and technical strategy from day one.

Your Impact & Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical design of the Inline Security Service Platform, including traffic interception, proxy-based enforcement, security inspection pipelines (HTTP/S, API, AI traffic), policy evaluation, and telemetry integration.

• Lead design and implementation of a modern, Cloud-native, multi-tenant platform for GenAI security products.

• Lead hands-on architectural decisions that balance security depth, performance, and reliability across a distributed, Cloud-native system.

• Design and own the policy model governing AI access and inspection behavior, ensuring consistent enforcement across tenants, environments, and traffic types.

• Drive platform execution from active development into production-grade maturity, identifying and eliminating technical debt that limits scalability, observability, or maintainability.

• Define operational standards including metrics, logs, events, and health indicators to ensure the platform is diagnosable, measurable, and resilient under real-world conditions.

• Ensure high standards of code quality, scalability, performance, and observability across all platform components.

• Introduce best practices across the engineering organization: CI/CD, testing strategy, coding standards, and code review culture.

• Collaborate closely with product, research, and backend teams to translate security requirements into enforceable controls and influence roadmap decisions with deep technical insight.

• Act as the technical authority for Inline Security Service Platform across the organization, driving incident readiness, failure analysis, and continuous improvement.

• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design leadership, code review culture, and hands-on technical guidance.

Desired Background

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with direct ownership of system design, implementation, and delivery.

• Strong, deep networking experience, a core foundation for this role, with proven ability to design systems meeting strict latency, availability, and security requirements.

• Strong understanding of system architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and Cloud-native concepts.

• Proven experience designing and building scalable, high-quality SaaS or platform products.

• Expert-level proficiency in proxy-based architectures (explicit, transparent, ICAP, HTTP/S inspection) and policy-driven enforcement systems.

• Hands-on experience with Squid, Envoy, nginx, HAProxy, or similar proxy technologies.

• Experience with Cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, testing, observability).

• Hands-on experience with Rust, Python, and Go for building high-performance services.

• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent communication skills with ability to lead technical discussions and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

• Advantage: Experience with Secure Web Gateway (SWG), SASE, or Zero Trust architectures.

• Advantage: AI or ML-based inspection or decision engines in production systems.

• Advantage: High-throughput traffic processing and real-time security enforcement at scale.

• Advantage: Multi-tenant SaaS security platform experience with tenant isolation and operational excellence.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Ownership of a core security platform, not a single component, with direct impact on how organizations securely access modern web and AI services.

• A role that blends deep technical design, execution leadership, and product influence at the intersection of networking, Cloud, and AI security.

• Opportunity to shape the future of Inline Security Service Platform and AI-aware security architectures at global scale.