About Druva
Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence.
Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.
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Enterprise Workload is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva’s secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform. With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs. Druva takes a multi-layered approach to securing data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements.
About Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal SDET who brings strong engineering fundamentals, deep automation capability, and a passion for quality in distributed, cloud-based systems. This role involves designing test strategies, improving automation frameworks, and working closely with developers to ensure the reliability and security of complex backup workflows.
You will contribute across the full lifecycle - from feature design and white-box testing to deployment and validation in cloud environments.
Principal Software Development Engineer (Principal SDET)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Be part of the Agile development team and work closely with developers.
- AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Evaluate, champion, and integrate AI-assisted testing tools and Generative AI workflows to accelerate test case generation, automation, and bug analysis.
- Develop a deep understanding of product features and enhancements, including functional specifications and design, with a focus on automated and manual, white-box and black-box testing.
- Plan, create, and manage the overall quality strategy.
- Collaborate with developers during product design reviews and provide inputs on functional requirements to improve testability and automation.
- Own end-to-end QA for medium to complex features.
- Collaborate across teams to strategize and plan long-term solutions for overall product and feature quality.
- Identify quality gaps and drive action items to address them.
- Develop and maintain a model to estimate automation ROI and continuously improve it.
- Evaluate and recommend new quality tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve productivity and quality.
- Plan test cycles, provide estimates, monitor and track progress, and participate in bug triaging and quality metrics tracking.
- Mentor and guide other SDETs on the team.
- Ensure timely builds and effectively manage product deployments.
- Drive reduction of overall COGS/Opex for test infrastructure.
- Design and architect modular, scalable, and reusable automated testing solutions.
Key Skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
- AI Tooling & Awareness: Practical experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Cursor) for code generation and debugging, with awareness of AI-driven testing solutions.
- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
- Ability to estimate, prioritize, and plan work with technical leads.
- Good understanding of operating systems (Windows and Linux).
- Understanding of threads, multiprocessing
- Good understanding of basic networking concepts.
- Experience with bug and test management tools such as Jira, TestRail, etc.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git, SVN, etc.
- Good shell scripting skills.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Java.
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V.
- Familiarity with cloud architecture and concepts.
- Experience with security, scale, and performance testing.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
- Experience building automation pipelines and working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience designing automation frameworks and tools.
- Knowledge of front-end web application test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Puppeteer.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs and API testing/automation.
- Understanding of Agile testing methodologies, test pyramid, and quality metrics.
- Experience with white-box testing and methodologies such as TDD and BDD.
- Experience mentoring QA/SDET teams.
Pluses
- Cloud computing experience.
- Storage domain experience.
Skills Required
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
- Practical experience with AI coding assistants such as Copilot, Claude, or Cursor
- Knowledge of AI-driven testing solutions
- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Ability to estimate, prioritize, and plan work with technical leads
- Understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Understanding of threads and multiprocessing
- Understanding of basic networking concepts
- Experience with bug and test management tools such as Jira and TestRail
- Experience with version control systems such as Git or SVN
- Good shell scripting skills
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or another programming language
- Familiarity with VMware and Hyper-V virtualization technologies
- Familiarity with cloud architecture and concepts
- Experience with security, scale, and performance testing
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, including MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, or Cassandra
- Experience building automation pipelines and working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
- Experience designing automation frameworks and tools
- Knowledge of web application test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Puppeteer
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs and API testing or automation
- Understanding of Agile testing methodologies, test pyramid, and quality metrics
- Experience with white-box testing and TDD or BDD methodologies
- Experience mentoring QA or SDET teams
- Cloud computing experience
- Storage domain experience
Druva Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Druva and has not been reviewed or approved by Druva.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive in the U.S., with medical, dental/vision, mental-health programs, and an Employee Assistance Program. Day-one eligibility is cited, and feedback suggests healthcare is a strong part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed around a flexible Rest & Re‑Energize approach, with multiple mentions of open/unlimited PTO and paid holidays. Feedback suggests employees value the flexibility and immediate access to leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits include paid maternity, paternity, adoption, and family medical leave. Coverage extends to family-building support such as fertility and adoption expense funding, which feedback suggests is a differentiator.
Druva Insights
What We Do
Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by over 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management.
Why Work With Us
We are the leader in cloud data protection and cloud is the way of the future! With over $300M in funding and our Pre-IPO status, it is the perfect time to jump on board. Two of our company values are "challenger mentality" and "one team". We truly believe in the impact we can make together and we are not afraid to push the status quo.
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