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title: 'Senior SDET at Tigera'
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# Senior SDET at Tigera

- **Company:** Tigera
- **Location:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/tigera/jobs/4720168005?gh_jid=4720168005

## Job description

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution.

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

## About Your Role

Tigera is hiring a Senior SDET to own quality for Calico’s converged networking,  the capability that lets enterprises run virtual machines and containers side by side on Kubernetes. Enterprises are migrating large VM estates onto Kubernetes at speed, and the networking carrying those workloads sits squarely on the critical path: a half-migrated cluster that silently drops traffic isn’t a bug someone files next sprint, it’s an outage. You will own the test strategy for that surface end to end, deciding what has to be proved before a release ships, building the Go automation and the environment harnesses that stand up hybrid Kubernetes and VM topologies on demand, and wiring it into CI so every build is exercised against real migration scenarios. This is a hands-on role for someone who treats quality as engineering, not gatekeeping: you’ll write the tests, build the tooling the team depends on, go hunting in the half-migrated and partially-failed states nobody specified, and be the person who can say with evidence whether a release is ready.

We are looking for an engineer who is as comfortable root-causing a packet drop across a cluster as writing the harness that reproduces it, and who turns every field escape into permanent coverage rather than a one-off fix.

For this position, we are looking to hire in Vancouver (Hybrid).

Vancouver Salary Range: CAD $130,000 to CAD $150,000

You Will:

Own the test strategy: Decide what has to be proved before a release is shipped, write the test plans and drive them to done across releases rather than waiting on the work to be assigned.

- Build the automation: integration and system-level suites in Go (unit tests stay with the developers who own the code), plus the tooling and environment harnesses that stand up hybrid Kubernetes and VM topologies on demand and tear them down cleanly.
- Wire it into CI: so every build is exercised against real migration scenarios end to end - provision, deploy, run, report. And keep the signal trustworthy by chasing flakes down instead of rerunning around them.
- Work shoulder to shoulder with developers, PM, and customer success: Push for testability while designs are still open, surface risk early enough that someone can act on it, and give a clear read on release readiness rather than a pass/fail count.
- Break things on purpose: Explore past the written plan, go after the half-migrated and partially-failed states nobody specified, and find the edge cases the developers missed.Turn field escapes into permanent coverage:  reproduce the customer's issue, land the regression test, and make sure that class of bug can't come back.
- Turn field escapes into permanent coverage: Reproduce the customer's issue, land the regression test, and make sure that class of bug can't come back

You Have

- 5+ years in quality/test engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with at least 1 of those spent testing networking, infrastructure, or distributed systems (not just application layer). Owning test strategy for a product area, not executing plans written by others.
- Hands on Kubernetes operations knowledge on at least one distribution (kubeadm/upstream, OpenShift, Rancher/RKE, EKS/GKE/AKS): that may include cluster bootstrapping, workload deployment, and independently root causing failures across pods, services, CNI, DNS, RBAC, and ingress.
- Working knowledge of a VM estate: VMware vSphere/ESXi, KVM/libvirt, or Hyper-V. VM networking (bridges, VLANs, trunking, SR-IOV), and how VM resident applications discover and reach each other.
- Comfortable in Linux and solid on networking fundamentals.
- Proficiency in a compiled or scripting language for writing production-quality test code and tooling. Go is the language of our choice and is strongly preferred. However Python or Java with willingness to work primarily in Go is acceptable.
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining end-to-end CI pipelines that provision infrastructure, deploy the product, run suites, and publish results. Plus infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) for reproducible, disposable test environments

Nice-to-Have

- Calico or Calico Enterprise, or depth in another CNI; understanding of Kubernetes NetworkPolicy semantics and of extending policy to non-cluster workloads (host endpoints, VM/bare-metal endpoints).
- Linux systems and networking depth: iptables/nftables, ip route/ip rule, network namespaces, tcpdump/conntrack, routing and IPAM concepts. Can diagnose a packet drop end to end without escalating.
- KubeVirt or OpenShift Virtualization: VM workload scheduling on Kubernetes and their networking behaviour, including live migration.
- eBPF familiarity - reading and tracing problems, bpftool, XDP concepts.
- Understanding of IPv6 and dual-stack, overlays and encryption modes.
- Service mesh interaction with CNI and policy (eg. Istio Ambient mesh).
- Scale, soak, and failure-injection testing; test observability and systematic flake triage using Prometheus/Grafana, log aggregation.

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.

## About Tigera

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tigera provides unified security, observability, and authorization control for AI agents and Kubernetes workloads through its Calico and Lynx platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; $53M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Ratan Tipirneni (CEO), Pervez Sikora (former President), Alain Mayer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Kubernetes-native networking and security; AI agent security and governance
- **Target customers**: AI & Platform Engineering teams, Security teams at large enterprises (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: "Control and visibility for every AI workload and agent, wherever they run"

## Products & Services
- **[Calico Platform](https://www.tigera.io/)**: Unified platform for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability. Powered by Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF. Provides full visibility into AI agents, runtime enforcement, and policy automation across any Kubernetes distribution, VM, or bare metal host. Used by 1M+ clusters daily.
- **[Lynx](https://www.tigera.io/)**: AI Agent Security, Observability & Enforcement for Kubernetes. Allows teams to audit, observe, and enforce what AI agents are authorized to do *before* they act. Audit-ready by default with traceable logs for every agent action and policy decision.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$10.5M per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
  - Total Funding: $53M (Series B closed Dec 2018 for $30M; Series A $13M in 2016; Venture round $10M)
  - Nodes Secured Daily: 8M+
  - Clusters Under Management: 1M+
- **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, Upwork
- **Investors/Partners**: 4 investors in Series B, 3 in Series A (exact names not fully disclosed in source)
- **Growth Signals**: Operating across 6 countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, India, Israel, UK); named GigaOM Leader and Outperformer; expanding into AI agent security (Lynx product launch)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Kubernetes expertise**: Created and maintains Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution
- **NSX alternative**: Migrate off VMware NSX without rearchitecting the network
- **Proactive enforcement**: Unlike traditional security tools that audit after the fact, Tigera enforces authorization *before* agents act
- **Proven at scale**: 8M+ nodes secured daily across 1M+ clusters in production at demanding enterprises
- **No vendor lock-in**: Works across every Kubernetes distribution, cloud provider, and on-premises environment
- **Single console**: One operator installs, configures, and manages the full networking and security stack

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Agent Security**: Extending policy enforcement and observability to govern autonomous AI agents as they become embedded in critical business processes
- **Simplification**: Reducing operational burden with automated policy recommendations, testing, and deployment
- **Unified platform**: Eliminating tool sprawl and fragmented controls across Kubernetes environments
- **Open-source commitment**: Maintaining Calico Open Source as the leading standard while offering advanced capabilities commercially

## Why Work Here
- **Company culture**: Collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect and commitment. Core values include continuous learning, building, and testing. 4.6/5.0 employer rating (63 reviews) with high marks for culture (4.6), work-life balance (4.5), and career growth (4.5) per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Global team with offices in USA, Canada, Ireland, and England; emphasizes flexible work environment
- **Perks**: Competitive salary with stock options, top-tier health/vision/dental benefits, monthly wellness allowance, quarterly team events, weekly team lunches, happy hours
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on continuous learning, certification, and open-source contribution. Team includes former engineers from Metaswitch, VMware, Microsoft, NGINX, and Project Calico
- **Team composition**: 87 employees currently; 44 in technical roles, 9 in product, 8 in marketing. Senior-heavy team (29 senior, 17 other management)
- **Active openings**: 6 positions including Senior AI/ML Engineer, Senior TestOps Engineer, Senior UI Engineer, Senior SDET, and Enterprise Account Executives

## Sources
1. [tigera.io](https://www.tigera.io/)
2. [tigera.io/about](https://www.tigera.io/about/)
3. [tigera.io/careers](https://www.tigera.io/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Tigera](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
5. [Workable - Tigera openings](https://apply.workable.com/tigera/?lng=en)

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