Staff Cloud Software Developer Engineer in Test, SDET

There are 2 actors on a network, people and machines. Just as usernames and passwords are used by people to access machines, machine identities are used by machines to identify and access each other. Venafi is the inventor of the technology that manages and protects machine identities, the most important security initiative in our Global 5000 customers. We are Warriors!

Are you passionate about making a positive impact and protecting the world from cybercriminals? If so, you may be a natural Venafi Warrior!

How you’ll be protecting the world:

As Software Development Engineer in Test in the Venafi-as-a-Service Engineering group, you will be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that protects many of the largest organizations in the world. To deliver on the responsibility of producing highly secure and robust software that protects machine identities at-scale, the team is looking for warriors that can help them to focus on quality practices and bring the needed “break-it” mindset to our shift-left development methodology.

In this role you will:

• Advocate for a culture of continuous testing and quality improvement and collaborate with development teams to promote quality best practices
• Leverage your experience to coach developers in designing testable and scalable features and provide guidance on selecting the right testing level to ensure efficient deployment pipelines.
• Conduct workshops and training sessions to enhance the team's understanding of testing methodologies and automation.
• Identify gaps and lead the improvement of test coverage and quality of the tests.
• Enable developers by designing, implementing and maintaining automation framework and tools.
• Develop and maintain test infrastructure.
• Work with teams and product owners within Agile process to clarify and tighten acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Co-develop and review test plans with team during Agile sprints.
• Support developers in designing and building complex end-to-end test scenarios.
• Track quality metrics to measure the adoption of testing strategy and propose process changes to address any deficiencies.

The ideal Venafi Warrior will be armed with:

• Solid experience with a variety of Test Automation and Management tools
• Experience building robust and scalable automation frameworks and tests
• Experience building and/or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab preferred
• Good knowledge in one or more programming languages, Golang or Java preferred
• Ability to write clean, consistent, and well documented code following best practices
• Experience managing Linux-based virtual machines
• Fast learner with strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to lead and multi-task, problem-solve, make decisions and operate in a fast-paced environment
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and be reliable and responsive

What sets you apart?

• Experience testing security software
• Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure
• Experience with SaaS products and technologies
• Experience with typical IT infrastructure, such as load balancers, web servers, certificate authorities, identity management systems, etc.

Experience with UI test automation frameworks

While you are busy protecting the world, we’ve got you covered!

In addition to fostering a virtual first collaborative environment, Venafi offers a benefits package that is in the top 10%. Venafi pays 90% of the monthly premium for medical insurance and 100% of the monthly premium for dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability, and accident insurance for both team members and their families. We offer an open time off policy and observe 12 holidays each year. We also offer a 401(k) with company matching, company HSA contribution, 2x salary employer-paid life insurance, parental leave, pet insurance, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits! 

More About Venafi:

Venafi is the undisputed leader in Machine Identity Management. Why? Because we created the category and are light years ahead of anyone that would consider competing! Gartner has recognized Venafi as number one in our space and as it turns out, one is NOT the loneliest number!

Venafi is the inventor of the technology that secures and protects machine identities. The Venafi platform provides visibility, intelligence, and automation for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile, cloud native, Kubernetes, and SSH machine identity types. Many of the largest organizations in the world use Venafi.

Billions of dollars have been spent protecting usernames and passwords and almost nothing managing machine identities—organizations are just now realizing that managing and protecting machine identities is as important as managing usernames and passwords. The bad guys know this and are using stolen or forged machine identities in their cyberattacks. In fact, Gartner says 50% of network attacks will use machine identities.

Come help us protect the world!

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The anticipated pay range for this position is $135,000 to $159,000. This is a general estimate for informational purposes only. The actual salary offered will be determined based on the candidate’s relevant qualifications, experience, and skills.  

*Upon review of the candidates and based on the objective factors listed above, this position may be filled at a higher or lower tier. 

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.