- Salary
- $140k – $185k/yr
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California
- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: United States, All Regions (Remote)
Compensation: $140,000 - $185,000 / year
Description
SDVI's SDETs set the test strategy for the projects they support. You'll work with feature developers to agree on what needs to be true for us to ship with confidence, then design, build, and run the test infrastructure that proves it. The work centers on how Rally behaves as a system, under load, under failure, and in the ways customers use it, more than on how any one part is implemented. We don't measure SDET by how many defects it finds. We measure whether the risk we accept at release is risk we chose.
As a Senior SDET, you'll drive test strategy for a major project or area of Rally with minimal direction. You'll shape the test infrastructure the rest of the team builds on, and help other SDETs and feature developers raise the quality of their tests.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement test strategy with feature teams on a major project or area of Rally, and agree up front on what must be true for high-impact changes and who proves it
- Test Rally against defined system properties and invariants, especially those pertaining to scalability, resiliency, and performance at customer scale
- Design test infrastructure and fixtures that serve both test and development, weigh their tradeoffs with peers, and see them through implementation to adoption
- Build tests that return a clear verdict on well-defined system behaviors
- Advise feature developers as they own the development-loop tests for their own changes
- Test that Rally's failures are diagnosable, so customers and support can tell what broke and why
- Review past production incidents with Support Engineering to find gaps in how we test
- Mentor other SDETs, and improve the practices and tools the team uses
- First 90 days. You're shaping the test strategy for a major project, know the test infrastructure well enough to support and refine its design, and feature teams coordinate with you to ensure releases ship with confidence.
- First year. You drive test strategy for a major area of Rally and have defined and tested its system properties. Feature developers use fixtures you designed, and other SDETs come to you for guidance.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- A track record of driving test strategy for microservice-based systems, cloud-hosted systems, or single-page web applications with minimal direction
- Experience designing test infrastructure and frameworks, and explaining their tradeoffs to peers
- Experience testing how systems behave under load and failure, beyond functional correctness
- Experience applying AI agents to test work, or driving test on an AI-forward engineering team, and a clear sense of when agent-written tests check the implementation instead of the intent
- Strong ability to read and understand Python, Javascript, or another programming language commonly used in test
- Experience applying software or system design principles in the test domain
- Curiosity about how and why systems fail, and the discipline to learn new systems and technologies in depth
- The ability to explain deeply technical topics to non-technical audiences, and to adjust how you communicate for customers, management, or peers
- Experience with load, performance, or fault-injection testing tools
- Experience running automated tests in CI pipelines
- Experience with pytest or similar test frameworks
- Experience with Robot Framework
- Experience mentoring other engineers
- Familiarity with professional media formats and tools, such as codecs, container formats, media encoders, and metadata management
If you don't meet every point above, we'd still like to hear from you.
Salary range $140,000 to $185,000
Salary range represents the expected range for this position and is based on a number of factors, including location, and will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges are US applicable only.
More About Us
- We're small and distributed. Most of our collaboration happens over Slack and Zoom, across time zones. You'll own what you build, and you'll work closely with people outside your immediate team.
- Engineers stay close to customers. You'll hear directly from the people using what you build. When something goes wrong in production, the team that owns the code helps fix it.
- We dig for root causes. When something breaks, we find out why instead of patching the symptom and moving on.
- We ship, then refine. We work in short sprints and improve things over time instead of waiting for a perfect first version.
AI coding agents are part of how we work every day, and we invest in getting good at using them. We’re also careful with them, because customers run their content operations on Rally. We’re tracking industry trends and innovations, but using our day-to-day experiences to separate signal from noise.
Our engineers are still responsible for the code they ship. We still expect them to explain and defend its architecture and intent, even as more is built with an agent’s help. We judge work by its quality, not its quantity.
This role is not a fit for someone who would rather not use AI tools, or who is used to shipping generated changes they couldn’t explain. It probably is a fit for someone who knows where these tools go wrong and how to achieve quality with speed.
- This is a remote role, open to candidates across the United States
- Occasional travel may be required, but is not core to this role
- Interview process: introductory call, AI proficiency interview, team technical interview, interview project, interview project presentation, and founders interview
- You are looking for your next big challenge
- You are looking for a company that welcomes your talent virtually
- You want teammates you can learn from, and who will learn from you
- You want to be part of a team that respects individuals and their work
- You consider the big picture and your contribution to it
Skills
PythonJavaScript