QA Engineer

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!

AI agents are showing up in enterprise infrastructure faster than platform teams can identify and security teams can govern them. Lynx is our answer: a new product built to detect agents at runtime, understand their behaviour, and distinguish legitimate activity from misbehaviour.

We're a focused engineering team working on the hard parts, and we ship fast. Quality is what lets us keep shipping fast without breaking the trust our customers place in a security product.

We're looking for a QA Engineer to own quality for Lynx end to end. You'll be embedded with a small, high-autonomy engineering team, building the test strategy, automation, and release confidence for a product that runs at the intersection of Kubernetes, runtime telemetry, and AI.

This is a hands-on role for someone who treats quality as engineering, not gatekeeping. You'll write automated tests, build the harnesses and fixtures the team relies on, hunt down the failures that only surface at scale, and be the person who can say with evidence whether a release is ready. You will advocate for the customer and help release great products fast, with high confidence across a range of supported platforms. Because Lynx makes security decisions from behavioural signals, you'll also help us reason about a harder question than "does it pass": is a detection correct, and how do we prove it stays correct as the models and data evolve?

You Will

• Own the test strategy for Lynx across unit, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.

• Design and build automated test suites and CI pipelines that give the team fast, trustworthy signal on every change.

• Test distributed, Kubernetes-native systems: multi-node clusters, telemetry pipelines, and services under realistic load and failure conditions.

• Develop approaches for validating ML-driven behaviour — detections, risk scores, and behavioural baselines — including regression testing, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation of false-positive/false-negative rates.

• Build tooling, fixtures, and synthetic data that let the team reproduce agent behaviour and edge cases reliably.

• Investigate, isolate, and clearly report defects, driving them to resolution with engineering.

• Serve as the quality voice in design and release decisions, and help define what "ready to ship" means for a security product.

You Have

• 5+ years in software QA or test engineering, with a strong bias toward automation over manual testing.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for