Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Fortanix
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Fortanix
Cloud-based data security with key management
Fortanix · Bengaluru, India (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-06
Workplace: hybrid
Department: ENG
About Us:
In today's world, where data spreads across various clouds and devices, traditional security measures aren't enough. 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.
As 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.
Our 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.
Our 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.
Job Description
Fortanix is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to help build and scale the backend services for the Data Security Manager product. This 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. Our backend is built in Rust, so production Rust experience is highly valuable. We’re also open to strong backend engineers coming from C, C++ or Go who are interested in working deeply in Rust.
What you’ll work on:
You’ll own backend features from the initial product requirement through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. A typical project might start with a request to integrate Data Security Manager 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. From 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.
You’ll also:
We’re looking first and foremost for a strong backend engineer.
You should have substantial hands-on experience building production backend systems and be comfortable owning complex engineering problems rather than working exclusively from detailed specifications.
Strong candidates will have experience with:
Helpful, not required: Experience with any of the following will help you ramp quickly:
What will make someone successful in this role:
The strongest engineer for this team isn’t simply someone who knows Rust syntax.
We’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.
If you enjoy that combination of research, backend architecture, hands-on coding, integrations, and production problem-solving, this role should give you substantial technical ownership.
We offer a collaborative work environment, amazing equity, great benefits, competitive salary, and the opportunity to redefine cloud computing.
Friendly culture that brings the best out of everybody
Hybrid Work Model
12 Annual Leaves & 12 Casual/Sick Leaves
8 Public Holidays + 2 Floating Holiday
Comprehensive Medical and Dental Insurance Coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
Group Life Insurance
Personal Accident Insurance
Internet Reimbursement
Employee Stock Options
Onsite Snacks, Lunches, and Dinners Provided
Quarterly Beer Bashes & Year-End Celebrations
Fortanix 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. If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply.
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Fortanix provides cloud-based data security solutions, focusing on encryption key management and data protection through a Level 3 hardware security module (HSM) delivered as a cloud service. Its flagship Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) unifies key management and data security, while its platform supports confidential computing and zero-trust access, helping enterprises verify and secure connections before granting access. The company differentiates itself by offering a flexible, easy-to-integrate cloud HSM and unified data security suite designed for large organizations with complex security needs, paired with strong customer support. The goal is to help enterprises deploy secure, scalable data protection in the cloud with a zero-trust, confidential computing approach.
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