Software Engineer - Foundations

h3Company Description /h3pAt Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation. /ppOur prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen. /ppThis is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems. /ppWe’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture. /ppWhat really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely. /ppIf you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it /ph3Job Description /h3pThe Foundations team builds and runs the platform that every other engineering team at Check Point AI Security ships on. We combine software engineering with SRE and infrastructure work: our engineers develop the services behind high-quality, low-latency serving, and we own the infrastructure and operations beneath them, protecting our service level objectives (SLOs) in production. The result is that product teams can ship, run, and scale with confidence, without needing to think about infrastructure, reliability, or operations. /ppbResponsibilities /b /pulliDesign and build the hot path: gateway, request scheduling, and orchestration, where milliseconds matter /liliJoin our on-call rotation and improve how we handle incidents /liliSolve multi-tenant capacity problems on shared GPU infrastructure: isolation, admission control, and graceful degradation /liliOwn and operate our data systems (ClickHouse, Postgres, Kafka), including capacity, schema, and failure modes /liliWrite design docs, review architecture across teams, and help set engineering standards /liliScale our existing software stack and algorithms to serve the most demanding use-cases /liliHelp maintain the DevOps stack to continuously improve our own development practices /li /ulh3Qualifications /h3pbAbout you: /b /pulliYou’ve built and run production services in Go, Python, or C++ /liliYou’ve profiled, load-tested, and tuned a latency-sensitive system /liliYou work independently, write clearly, and take ownership of ambiguous problems /liliYou care about the customer behind the metric /liliYou're curious about AI security /liliYou're pragmatic and hands-on: you get things done and keep our long-term vision in mind /li /ulpbNice to have: /b /pulliExperience serving models on GPUs /liliYou’ve operated at least one stateful data system in production /liliExperience running services across more than one cloud /liliOpen-source contributions /li /ul