Forward Integration Engineer (FIE)

About the role

Aleph (formerly Red Alpha Cybersecurity) is hiring a Forward Integration Engineer. The role takes products from "it works" to "it works for the customer": building integrations, writing Python services, working with APIs and data, troubleshooting real-world environments and working directly with customers to get solutions into production. It sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud/infrastructure and customer delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Build integrations with customer APIs, databases, files, identity systems and enterprise services
• Develop backend and integration components in Python, including REST APIs, authentication, validation, retries, logging and testing
• Process customer data: ingest, validate, transform and deliver reliable data pipelines or product features
• Support AI-enabled solutions such as RAG, tool calling and MCP-connected workflows
• Help deploy solutions using Docker, CI/CD and cloud services
• Troubleshoot real-world issues involving DNS, firewalls, routing, VPNs, certificates, permissions and service accounts
• Join customer calls, demos and implementation sessions, and turn customer requirements into practical technical solutions
• Write runbooks, architecture notes, API documentation and handover notes, and identify recurring problems to improve deployment and implementation processes

Required profile

• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering, integration, backend, data engineering, cloud/infrastructure or a similar technical role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related technical field
• Strong problem-solving habits: reproducing issues, narrowing down causes, gathering evidence and communicating clearly
• Ability to explain technical concepts without jargon, and to work directly with customers and across teams
• Ownership of problems until they are usable outcomes, and willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies

Required skills

• Python, Git, command line, HTTP/REST, JSON and basic SQL
• Understanding of software development fundamentals: testing, debugging, logging and version control
• Nice to have: FastAPI / Flask, Docker, CI/CD, AWS / Azure / GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Airflow / Dagster / dbt, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, enterprise networking, observability, RAG, vector databases, MCP, LLM applications