Staff SDET

Overview

Staff SDET role focused on building and running automation and chaos-testing frameworks for a distributed PostgreSQL database.

What you'll do

• Architect, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks.
• Design and execute distributed database test suites for stress, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
• Design and orchestrate tests that simulate real-world failure modes.
• Own end-to-end quality of major features from test planning to production-ready automation.
• Modernize and improve CI/CD test stability and efficiency.
• Scale test infrastructure as the feature set grows.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers based on test and customer feedback.

What you'll need

• 5–8 years of experience in SDET or Systems Engineering.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong distributed systems foundation including consistency models, CAP theorem, and consensus protocols.
• Highly desirable database internals knowledge (query processing, transactions/ACID, recovery logs, concurrent B-tree access).
• Comfort reading and navigating a complex C++ codebase to find failure points.
• Working knowledge of Python and Java plus advanced SQL.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, shell scripting, Git, and scalable CI/CD pipelines.

Details

• Location: India.
• Work mode: Hybrid (as indicated by #LI-Hybrid).