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Fortanix is a data-centric cybersecurity company protecting sensitive information across hybrid multicloud environments. The company uses advanced cryptography, encryption, and confidential AI solutions to address data exposure risks and defend against evolving cyber threats.
You'll join as a Senior Software Engineer on the backend team building and scaling the Key Insight product—a unified data security platform that integrates with cloud providers, on-premises databases, certificate lifecycle management tools, and enterprise systems to discover, analyze, and provide cryptographic security insights.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems without predefined solutions. You'll own backend features end-to-end: from product requirements through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and build backend services in Rust, including REST APIs, data models, database schemas, and service-to-service integrations
- Research and integrate with unfamiliar cloud and enterprise platform APIs and SDKs
- Own technical design for new capabilities, balancing architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
- Identify and solve performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges as the product grows
- Take features through production: implementation, testing, CI/CD, deployment, validation, and production readiness
- Debug complex production issues across application, integration, database, and infrastructure layers
- Partner with Product and Engineering to refine requirements and translate product needs into well-designed solutions
- Support customers and internal teams on complex technical issues
- Collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team on design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions
You should have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial hands-on backend development. Production Rust experience is preferred; strong C++ or Go engineers interested in working deeply in Rust are also welcome. You're comfortable owning complex engineering problems, designing microservices and REST APIs, working with database schemas and data models, and integrating third-party APIs and cloud services.
