Fortanix

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Fortanix
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3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services in Rust, including APIs, data models, database schemas, and service-to-service integrations.
  • Research and integrate cloud platforms, enterprise systems, APIs, SDKs, and related technologies.
  • Own technical designs and architectural decisions for scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable capabilities.
  • Take features through implementation, testing, deployment, production validation, performance testing, and ongoing support.
  • Diagnose complex production issues across application, integration, database, and infrastructure layers.
  • Identify and resolve backend performance, scalability, and architectural challenges.
  • Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering on requirements, trade-offs, design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
  • Support customers and internal teams with complex technical issues and use findings to improve the product.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant backend development experience.
  • Strong hands-on programming experience in Rust, C++, or Go; production Rust experience is preferred.
  • Experience building production backend services and microservices.
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs, integrations, service-to-service communication, database schemas, data models, and application data-access layers.
  • Experience integrating third-party APIs, SDKs, cloud services, or enterprise platforms.
  • Ability to research unfamiliar technologies, handle ambiguous requirements, and develop practical technical designs and implementation plans.
  • Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, and complex multi-component production issues.
  • Experience owning software through design, implementation, testing, deployment, production validation, and ongoing support.
  • Experience collaborating effectively with Product Management and distributed engineering teams.
  • Helpful experience includes Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native deployments, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, cybersecurity, cryptography, key management, certificate management, observability, and high-growth products.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model.
  • 12 annual leaves, 12 casual/sick leaves, 8 public holidays, and 2 floating holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Group life insurance and personal accident insurance.
  • Internet reimbursement.
  • Employee stock options and equity benefits.
  • Onsite snacks, lunches, and dinners.
  • Quarterly beer bashes and year-end celebrations.
Fortanix

About Fortanix

201-500 employees

Fortanix builds a unified data security platform for enterprises to discover, protect, and control sensitive data across hybrid multicloud. Its products span key management and HSM-as-a-service, tokenization and secrets management, and confidential computing built on technologies such as Intel SGX. The company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is privately held and sells software and SaaS subscriptions.

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