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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

Principal Software Engineer Development in Test