Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

About the position

At Corelight, we believe that the best approach to cybersecurity risk starts with the network. Attackers can evade endpoint detection, firewalls and many other technologies - but they can’t avoid leaving digital footprints on the networks they traverse. Built on open-source innovations from Zeek, Suricata and YARA and refined through years of real-world use, Corelight transforms network footprints from physical, virtual and cloud networks into actionable insights. Our customers use these insights to speed incident response, proactively hunt for threats and stay in compliance with cybersecurity regulations. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Corelight, you will utilize your strong network security and development skills to design, develop and utilize test frameworks, test tools, and automation. You will define, implement, and analyze metrics to determine test effectiveness and the overall quality of software. This position requires collaborating with the product developers, build and devop engineers developers to ensure the tools you create and maintain support to the full team. The ideal candidate will look to reuse and adapt modern solutions from the security, network, infrastructure and SQA communities.

Responsibilities

• Be the software testing expert in an Agile scrum team.
• Design and implement system testing suites for network security products.
• Responsible for entire system testing process including analysis, design and executing test plans and cases.
• Develop tools to setup/mimic customer environments to triage defects.
• Sensor and logging Infrastructure setup and certification in various cloud environments.
• Corelight cloud sensor deployment test and setup in AWS and GCP.

Requirements

• 1+ years professional experience creating test automation frameworks and tool.
• 2+ years network security experience.
• 3+ years professional coding experience in Python.
• Pytest, Behave or equivalent testing tool experience in another programming environment.
• Proficiency with logging, data and event management solutions: Splunk, Elastic/ELK, Kafka.
• Proficiency with Virtual (VMware) or Cloud (AWS, GCE, Azure).
• Professional coding experience in Python/Go for test automation, internal tooling and product code review.
• Experience Kubernetes, Docker or Container ecosystems experience.
• Expertise in Linux usage including setup/configuration, operation and monitoring system behavior and performance.

Nice-to-haves

• Some performance/ scalability / reliability (PSR) testing is also preferred (e.g. JMeter); Ixia or Spirent traffic generators experience.
• Authentication and authorization integration testing; specifically Kerberos & Active Directory; access control list (ACL).

Benefits

• Equity and additional benefits will also be awarded.