Software Development Engineer in Test

Role : Sr. / Lead SDET Experience : 4-9 Years Location : Bangalore/ Remote (first month of joining and 1 week per quarter to be onsite) About us Lucidity is a rapidly growing company with a first of its kind and impactful product in the cloud storage. Joining Lucidity offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, solve real-world problems for major enterprises, and be part of a company that is reshaping the future of cloud storage. We were also awarded Best Infra and Dev Tools SaaS Startup by SaaSBoomi – Listed among India’s Top Startups by LinkedIn We are backed by $32 M in funding from investors like Alpha Wave Global, WestBridge Capital, and Beenext - We are the category leader in cloud storage optimization. Trusted by major enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies spanning across the US and the UK, being the major Markets. Opportunity to work with experienced co-founders & - serial entrepreneurs who bring with them more than a decade of experience working with companies like Microsoft, Swiggy, and Tracxn and building and selling large tech products. We have a presence across India, Abu Dhabi, the US, and the UK. What we do Lucidity is a company that provides an automated NoOps disk auto-scaler for cloud storage across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It addresses over-provisioned block storage by dynamically scaling capacity, increasing disk utilization to around 80% from 25-35%. This results in cost reductions of up to 70% for businesses. Here's a of what Lucidity does. Key benefits include: Significant Cost Savings on storage (especially EBS costs). Elimination of Downtime by preventing disk space issues. Reduced DevOps Effort through automation. Application Agnostic solution works with various systems. What you’ll do: Break things creatively: Design tests that expose weaknesses in storage tiering, kernel interactions, and edge cases Find flaws early: Shift-left testing through fault injection, fuzzing, and adversarial approaches Automate the chaos: Build test frameworks to simulate filesystem corruption, kernel panics, and recovery scenarios Push systems to fail: Artificially induce I/O storms, memory leaks, and resource starvation Debug deep: Solve complex issues at the kernel, filesystem, and block device layers Lead quality culture: Mentor engineers in defensive thinking with focus on NFRs and establish CI/CD pipelines What you'll need: Must Haves: 5+ years testing storage systems, filesystems, or cloud infrastructure Strong programming (Java) and test automation experience Hands-on with Linux/Windows storage stacks and benchmarking tools (fio, vdbench) Familiarity with kernel debugging (strace, eBPF, WinDbg) Experience with cloud storage platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) Good to haves: Open-source storage contributions (Ceph, ZFS, kernel) Production war stories of finding and fixing nasty bugs Knowledge of RAID, erasure coding, or tiering algorithms Crash systems with purpose: We reward finding critical flaws Shape our tech: Your testing directly influences architecture Zero bureaucracy: Just hard problems and smart teammates Competitive pay in a high-growth startup Why us? We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsite, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. What do we promise? A high-growth work environment Autonomy to decide & deliver on KPIs Work from home | Flexible hours | Unlimited Leaves Attractive ESOPs. Potential to see 100x in the next 5 years.