
Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET
CrackenAGI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Cyber SecurityPython
About the role
- Own quality for core cybersecurity features and systems
- Work side-by-side with security and platform engineers throughout the development lifecycle
- Design test strategies for security-critical and adversarial scenarios
- Build and maintain automated test frameworks and tooling (primarily Python)
- Perform white-box testing and participate in design and code reviews
- Test system-level properties: performance, reliability, scalability, failure modes
- Debug complex issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve test coverage
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and quality gates for security-sensitive releases
Requirements
- Cybersecurity background, such as:
- Pentesting, threat detection, security research, reverse engineering, blue/red team experience
- Hands-on experience with software testing or test automation
- Strong programming skills (Python required; ability to read system-level code is a plus)
- Experience designing automated tests and writing actionable bug reports
- Attacker mindset — you enjoy breaking systems to make them resilient
- Ability to independently define test strategies and take ownership
- Comfortable working in a distributed, high-autonomy team
Benefits
- Ownership of a core cybersecurity product
- Direct collaboration with founders and elite cyber operators
- High autonomy and real impact on product direction
- Fully remote & flexible work setup
- Competitive compensation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Pythonautomated testingwhite-box testingtest automationroot cause analysisperformance testingreliability testingscalability testingdebuggingCI/CD
Soft skills
ownershipindependenceproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationattacker mindsetadaptabilitycritical thinkingattention to detailresilience