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Engineering Manager, SDET - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)

USA - Sunnyvale, CAFull-time2026-08-26 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead a team of SDETs to ensure end-to-end validation of AIDR services, a platform processing millions of AI security events per second and managing petabytes of critical data.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, SDET (Quality Engineering)

Builds

Enterprise-grade test frameworks, automation, and tooling for cloud-side backend services and UI applications within the AIDR platform.

Domain

Cybersecurity, AI Security, Cloud Distributed Systems

Required skills

Engineering management, hands-on coding (Golang/Python/Java/TypeScript), distributed systems debugging, test strategy definition, CI/CD pipeline management, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/OCI), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), API testing (REST/gRPC), chaos engineering, AI tool utilization

Preferred skills

Cybersecurity domain knowledge, AI/ML security expertise, low-latency service experience, performance testing at scale, open source contributions

Technologies

Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP, OCI, Docker, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor SDET team while remaining hands-on in codebase, architect test frameworks for high-scale systems, drive quality culture across organization, debug complex distributed failures, define quality gates in CI/CD, partner with product teams on testing standards, manage team capacity and hiring

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC leader