SDET Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Department: ENG

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

About Fortanix:  

In today's world, where data spreads across various clouds and devices, traditional security measures aren't enough. Businesses need a dynamic approach to defend against constant cyber threats and ensure agile data security. Fortanix leads the way in data-centric cybersecurity for hybrid multicloud environments, using advanced cryptography, encryption, and confidential AI solutions.

As data breaches become more frequent and traditional defenses fall short, we focus on data exposure management to keep your information safe. Our unified data security platform addresses vulnerabilities in hybrid multicloud environments, defends against threats, and makes it easier to discover, assess, and fix data exposure risks. Whether implementing a Zero Trust model or preparing for the post-quantum computing era, we help businesses worldwide protect their most sensitive data, wherever it is. 

Our commitment to solving the world’s toughest data security challenges has earned Fortanix multiple Cybersecurity Excellence and Innovation Awards, as well as recognition from industry giants such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, Intel, , and Snowflake. 

Our team includes industry leaders and cryptography experts, creating a culture of trust, innovation and collaboration where every voice is valued. Recognized as a Great Place to Work, we're looking for passionate individuals to help us shape the future of data security and work towards a safer digital future

Job Description:

Fortanix seeks a talented and motivated Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join the India team. The SDET will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our platform by developing and executing comprehensive test plans and automated test suites. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the test strategy for Platform services, covering unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, and performance testing
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites, mostly in Rust, plus Python or TypeScript where appropriate
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, keep feedback loops fast, and reduce flaky tests
• Build test environments and test data for distributed systems, using containers, mocks, and service virtualization
• Write API and contract tests for service-to-service communication (REST)
• Run and analyze performance, load, and resilience tests, and turn the results into concrete engineering actions
• Review code and design documents to check testability and quality risks early
• Investigate production incidents and defects, find gaps in test coverage, and close them
• Help verify fixes for security findings and add regression coverage for them
• Mentor engineers on testing practices, and share tooling and patterns across the team
• Track quality metrics such as escaped defects, flakiness rate, pipeline duration, and coverage, and report on them.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 
• +5 years in software engineering or test automation, with at least 3 years as an SDET or in a similar role
• Strong programming skills in at least one systems or general-purpose language. Rust experience is preferred. Go, C++,with a willingness to learn Rust is acceptable
• Experience testing microservices and distributed systems in production
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with API testing, contract testing.
• Working knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, Gatling)
• Ability to debug across service boundaries using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Experience in security.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model
• 12 Annual Leaves & 12 Casual/Sick Leaves
• 8 Public Holidays + 2 Floating Holiday
• Comprehensive Medical and Dental Insurance Coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
• Group Life Insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Internet Reimbursement
• Employee Stock Options
• Onsite Snacks, Lunches, and Dinners Provided
• Quarterly Beer Bashes & Year-End Celebrations

Fortanix is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other status. If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!