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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.\nAs 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.\nOur 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.\nOur 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.\nFortanix is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to help build and scale the backend services behind our Key Insight product.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving problems that don't always come with a predefined solution. You'll work on a growing cybersecurity product that integrates with cloud platforms, on-premises databases, certificate lifecycle management tools, and other enterprise systems to discover, analyze, and provide insights into cryptographic security.\nOur backend is built in Rust, so production Rust experience is highly valuable. We're also open to strong backend engineers coming from C++ or Go who are interested in working deeply in Rust.\nWhat you'll work on:\nYou'll own backend features from the initial product requirement through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.\nA typical project might start with a request to integrate Key Insight with a new cloud provider or enterprise technology. Rather than simply receiving an implementation specification, you'll investigate the technology yourself: understand its APIs and SDKs, experiment with how they work, determine how our product should integrate with them, and recommend an approach to the team.\nFrom there, you'll translate that research into a technical design, identify any architectural changes required, break the work into executable pieces, and implement the solution.\nYou'll also:\nDesign and build backend services in Rust, including REST APIs, data models, database schemas, and service-to-service integrations.\nBuild integrations with cloud and enterprise platforms, researching unfamiliar APIs, SDKs, services, and technologies when necessary.\nOwn technical design for new capabilities, considering architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.\nScale a growing product. As adoption increases, you'll identify and solve performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and architectural limitations.\nTake features through production, including implementation, unit and integration testing, CI/CD, deployment, validation, performance testing, and production readiness.\nDebug complex production issues across application, integration, database, and infrastructure layers and make the changes necessary to resolve them.\nPartner closely with Product and Engineering to refine requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and turn product needs into well-designed engineering solutions.\nSupport customers and internal teams when complex technical issues arise, helping diagnose problems and improve the product based on what we learn.\nCollaborate with engineers across a globally distributed team, participating in design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural decisions.\nRequirements\nWe're looking first and foremost for a strong backend engineer.\nYou should have substantial hands-on experience building production backend systems and be comfortable owning complex engineering problems rather than working exclusively from detailed specifications.\nStrong candidates will have experience with:\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend development.\nStrong hands-on programming experience in Rust, C++, or Go. Production Rust experience is preferred.\nDesigning and building backend services and microservices used in production.\nDesigning and implementing REST APIs, including API contracts, integrations, and service-to-service communication.\nDesigning database schemas and data models and working with application data-access layers.\nBuilding or integrating with third-party APIs, SDKs, cloud services, or enterprise platforms.\nTaking ambiguous technical requirements, researching unfamiliar technologies, and turning findings into a practical technical design and implementation plan.\nDiagnosing and solving performance and scalability problems in production backend systems.\nDebugging complex issues across multiple components or services.\nOwning software through the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, production validation, and ongoing support.\nWorking effectively with Product Management and other engineering teams in a distributed environment.\nHelpful, not required:\nExperience with any of the following will help you ramp quickly:\nProduction development in Rust\nKubernetes, containers, or cloud-native deployment environments\nAWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, or other cloud platforms\nBuilding products that integrate with multiple external systems or cloud providers\nCybersecurity, cryptography, key management, certificate management, or observability products\nExperience working on a product during a high-growth or adoption phase, particularly where increasing usage created new performance or scalability challenges\nWhat will make someone successful in this role:\nThe strongest engineer for this team isn't simply someone who knows Rust syntax.\nWe're looking for someone who can be given a problem and independently figure out how the technology works, evaluate the available APIs and SDKs, propose an architecture, build the integration, test it at scale, deploy it, and help troubleshoot it once customers begin using it.\nIf you enjoy that combination of research, backend architecture, hands-on coding, integrations, and production problem-solving, this role should give you substantial technical ownership.\nBenefits\nHybrid Work Model\n12 Annual Leaves & 12 Casual/Sick Leaves\n8 Public Holidays + 2 Floating Holiday\nComprehensive Medical and Dental Insurance Coverage for employees and their eligible dependents\nGroup Life Insurance\nPersonal Accident Insurance\nInternet Reimbursement\nEmployee Stock Options\nOnsite Snacks, Lunches, and Dinners Provided\nQuarterly Beer Bashes & Year-End Celebrations\nFortanix is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other status. 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