Sr. Staff Software Engineer – SRE, Release & Test Platforms

What you'll be doing

  • Build and operate cloud-native engineering platforms for software validation, release qualification, and operational readiness.
  • Design production-like release and test environments to improve release confidence and deployment readiness.
  • Develop automated quality gates to assess release health, operational risk, and production readiness.
  • Integrate automated testing, observability, reliability signals, and deployment intelligence into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Build reusable test frameworks, self-service environments, test data, mock services, and developer productivity tooling.
  • Advance shift-left engineering through automated validation, continuous verification, and quality gates.
  • Automate failure detection, policy validation, deployment verification, security checks, and reliability assessments.
  • Lead Kubernetes-based platform evolution for scalable test infrastructure, release automation, and developer self-service.
  • Resolve recurring infrastructure issues via sustainable software, systems, and networking solutions.
  • Partner with engineering teams on design reviews, architecture standards, and automation-first reliability practices.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in software, systems, platform, or reliability engineering.
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise across architecture, operations, networking, storage, security, autoscaling, and multi-cluster environments.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms for cloud-native, mission-critical services.
  • Experience integrating Kubernetes with CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, and deployment validation.
  • Experience designing cloud-native platforms for ephemeral environments, release qualifications, and automated validation.
  • Proven ability to lead engineering excellence across developer productivity, platform engineering, release confidence, and modernization.
  • Experience with progressive delivery methods including canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback, and deployment verification.
  • Experience with chaos engineering, resilience validation, disaster recovery, and reliability assessments.
  • Expertise in coding, testing, and debugging using languages like Python, Go, Java, or Ruby in team settings.
  • Experience utilizing AI-assisted engineering for intelligent testing, release risk analysis, incident diagnostics, and operational automation.
  • Strong coding, observability, SLO, and cross-team collaboration skills to improve reliability, performance, and engineering standards.

Nice to haves

  • Expertise in observability and monitoring of applications, services, and networks at scale.
  • Experience with DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies including GitLab CI/CD or similar tools.
  • Experience building enterprise-scale test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, PyTest, JUnit/TestNG, or equivalent.
  • Experience with test orchestration, test impact analysis, flaky test detection, parallel execution, and intelligent regression testing.
  • Experience with service virtualization, contract testing, synthetic testing, and test data management.
  • Experience building engineering platforms supporting developer self-service and release engineering.
  • Experience with infrastructure configuration management tools like Ansible.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes ecosystem technologies such as Helm, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Kustomize, Istio/Linkerd, Gateway API/Ingress, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and container runtimes.
  • Experience implementing GitOps using Argo CD, Flux, or similar tools.
  • Experience operating Kubernetes across AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and Google Cloud (GKE).

Perks and benefits

  • Company-wide designated global well-being days off in addition to holidays.
  • Supportive working culture promoting work-life balance.
  • Parental leave programs.
  • Childcare and caregiving benefits.
  • Learning platform built with company technology and tuition reimbursement programs to support growth.
  • Global, cross-functional mentoring programs.
  • Team building activities, employee belonging groups, volunteering, and community outreach programs.
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