Senior Staff / Principal Software Development Engineer Test, Data Connector

WHO WE ARE Balbix is the world's leading platform for cybersecurity posture automation. Using Balbix, organizations can discover, prioritize and mitigate unseen risks and vulnerabilities at high velocity. With seamless data collection and petabyte-scale analysis capabilities, Balbix is deployed and operational within hours, and helps to decrease breach risk immediately. 

Balbix counts many global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. We are backed by John Chambers (the former CEO and Chairman of Cisco), top Silicon Valley VCs and global investors. We have been called magical, and have received raving reviews as well as customer testimonials, numerous industry awards, and recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, and by Frost & Sullivan.

We are seeking a strong technical leader to join our team as a Principal Quality Software Engineer for the Data connector team. This role is ideal for someone who takes ownership of product quality and is driven to solve complex problems at every level. Balbix consumes data from many different sources such as servers, switches, routers, cloud connectors, etc. You will be responsible for the design and development of innovative automation strategies to validate the Balbix Ingestion services.

You Will :

• Responsible for developing test strategies to validate continuous streaming ingestions from 3rd party SaaS connectors, network security tools, CMDB, GRC tools, etc.
• Work on validating data streaming (Kafka or RabbitMQ) & ETL using white box & black box test strategies.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand customer requirements and develop use case scenarios for testing new features.
• Provide thorough technical leadership in designing and developing testing frameworks for various types of tests, such as fault and long-running tests.
• Responsible for establishing new tools & QE methodologies across the QE organization.
• Actively participate and provide technical inputs during the product development cycle.
• Develop and enhance the REST API/UI automation framework, write and review testing code, debug failures, and integrate applications with third-party web services.
• Develop scalable back-end components to improve application performance.
• Responsible for mentoring other team members & grooming the team from scratch.

You Are :

• Able to take on very complex problems, learn quickly, iterate, and persevere toward a robust solution
• Product-focused and passionate about building truly usable systems
• Collaborative and comfortable working across teams including data engineering, front end, product management, and DevOps
• Responsible and like to take ownership of challenging problems
• A good communicator, and facilitates teamwork via good documentation practices
• Comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in designing algorithms for evolving needs
• Intuitive in using the right type of models to address different product needs
• Curious about the world and your profession, constant learner
• Able to work in a startup environment, optimized for high-velocity feature delivery

You Have :

• 15+ years of product quality & automation experience,
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field,
• Expertise in Python and automated REST API/UI testing.
• Experience in networking (NMAP, SNMP, Sensors), Streaming ( Kafka, RabbitMQ )
• Strong Linux admin-level knowledge
• Strong experience and knowledge of micro-services, distributed systems, and performance optimizations
• Knowledge of Aws/Azure/GCP native services & ecosystem
• Working knowledge of VMWare. Install, configure, and manage virtual instances.
• Preferred: Knowledge of databases like SQL, NoSQL, experience in AI/ML testing, CyberSecurity