SDET Engineer

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, ServiceNow, 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.