Software Escalation Engineer; Python

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 adapt to quickly changing technologies and provide top‑tier support for our product line. This position will investigate customer issues with our products and provide timely resolutions while coordinating with our support and development teams.

We are considering candidates who are able to work by hybrid model, located within physical proximity to Morrisville, NC.

• 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.

• B.Sc. in C omputer S cience 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.
• Experience w orking with AWS, Azure, or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices – Advantage.
• Knowledge of IT Fundamentals (Networking / Security / Storage).
• Strong understanding of REST API, scalability, and security concepts (OAuth2, JWT , API Gateways).
• Experience with relational and No
  
  SQL databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Redis).
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing and messaging systems (Rabbit
  
  MQ, Kafka) – Advantage.
• Knowledge of multi‑tenant SaaS architectures – Advantage.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code and monitoring/observability tools.
• Hands‑on experience with AI projects and applications.
• Fluent English (written and verbal).
• Advantageous, not required:
  • Familiarity with additional languages (PHP, Angular/JS, Swift/Objective ‑ C, Kotlin/Java).
  • Previous customer‑facing technical positions.
  • Provide training and support to internal teams.
  • Familiarity with Datadog.

Varonis is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.