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
Life @ Balbix
At Balbix, we have built a culture that aligns to our values of ownership, customer focus, curiosity, tenacity, innovation, judgement, teamwork, communication, honesty and impact. In joining our team you’ll work with very motivated and knowledgeable people, build pioneering products and utilize cutting-edge technology. Our Balbix team members see rapid career growth opportunities stemming from our culture of alignment, bottom up innovation, our clarity of goals and unrelenting mission. Last but not least, developing the world's most advanced platform to address what the most important (and hardest) technology problem facing mankind today is exceptionally rewarding!
More information at https://www.balbix.com/company/careers/
Please reach out if you want a seat on our rocket-ship and are passionate about changing the cybersecurity equation.
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What We Do
Balbix is the world’s leading cybersecurity posture automation company. The Balbix Security Cloud uses AI and automation to reinvent how the world’s leading organizations reduce their cyber risk. With Balbix, security teams can accurately inventory their cloud and on-prem assets, conduct risk-based vulnerability management, and quantify their cyber risk in monetary terms. Balbix was ranked #32 on the 2021 Deloitte Fast 500 North America and was named a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor.’
