About Us:

Sauce Labs is the world's largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world's top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality. Learn more at saucelabs.com.

The Role:

This pivotal role drives the design and implementation of high-value features and the foundational Error-Reporting/Backtrace platform. This is a strategic product in the Sauce Labs portfolio, and you will be instrumental in enabling customers to analyze multi-dimensional data and debug at scale to resolve their business-critical production issues. Your solutioning and development expertise in native, low-level systems (Rust, C/C++) will accelerate the evolution of this intricate product with a highly performant custom columnar database. Core Linux backend skills and a DevOps perspective are essential to design and evolve a scalable, maintainable platform. You will collaborate remotely with a global engineering team on new capabilities, enhancing backend performance, reliability, data analysis, and user experience. If you have compelling code to share, we would love to see it—we hire for demonstrable talent first!

Responsibilities:

• Extend core subsystems including work scheduling, networking (HTTP), storage, indexing, and data analysis. Performance-sensitive components are primarily in Rust and C/C++.
• Enhance platform observability by integrating bespoke and off-the-shelf OpenTelemetry capabilities, encompassing metrics, tracing, and profiling, and evolving Grafana dashboards to provide deeper insights.
• Collaborate with business and management functions to develop and execute the product roadmap.
• Provide technical leadership, advising on investments, leading solution design and development, and mentoring junior staff.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• Contribute to improvements in the software development lifecycle for increased velocity and quality.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of development experience in C/C++ and Rust.
• Demonstrable skill in developing specialized data structures, algorithms, and supporting infrastructure for real-world workloads.
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS).
• Proficiency with live and post-mortem debugging tools.
• Expertise in the development of AI-driven features, as well as agents and skills integrated with internal workflows.
• Strong experience managing/scripting CI and scaling infrastructure using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Salt.
• You are autonomous, take initiative, and act on it.
• You stay current with the field, having read at least 2 relevant computer systems papers in the last year.
• You have a proven track record of collaboration and pragmatism, leveraging the strengths of others to build great products.

This Saucer can be found globally.  We believe in the power of in-person collaboration to build strong relationships and drive innovation. To support this, our office models are tailored by region:

• Poland, Berlin, and the US: We operate on a hybrid basis, offering flexibility alongside collaboration with in-office days as required.
• India: We operate in-office 5 days a week to maximize team synergy and real-time collaboration and mentorship.

Regardless of location, Saucers living near an office are expected to be present and engaged with their local teams.

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Security responsibilities at Sauce

At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You’ll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org wide level and exercise a ‘security first’ approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.

Joining Collibra’s Customer Experience Testing Team

We're looking for a talented Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, scalability, and reliability of our software applications. In this role, you will work autonomously to drive quality initiatives, advocate for a shift-left testing approach, and consistently meet high-performance standards.  You will be responsible for testing the installation and deployment of software across multiple cloud providers, as well as  defining, creating, and executing both manual and automated tests for complex customer user journeys. You will experiment with a variety of testing tools, promote quality awareness across the Product and Engineering organization, and build scalable pipelines and frameworks that align with our business environment.

This is a hybrid role based in our Raleigh office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.

SDETs at Collibra are responsible for

• Defining, creating, and executing manual and automated tests for customer user journeys, ensuring they accurately reflect real-world customer use cases.
• Using, developing, and executing robust automation scripts and scalable frameworks (rather than relying solely on out-of-the-box tools) using Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, JMeter, and Selenium.
• Building, maintaining, and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, while managing test environments with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Combining strong coding skills with exploratory and manual testing sessions to catch edge cases that automation might miss. You will also define, create, and maintain complex test data.
• Utilizing observability tools (Grafana, Datadog) to analyze test results, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with system architects and engineers to optimize software and hardware configurations.
• Partnering with Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams to understand customer context, drive shift-left testing practices, and support peers in expanding their testing capabilities.
• Applying the scientific method (observe, research, hypothesize, test, conclude) to systematically break down complex configurations into manageable tasks. You will track issues to resolution, report on quality metrics, and integrate emerging trends to enhance ROI.

You have

• 4+ years of experience in software testing and test automation, preferably within a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent working experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript to build custom testing infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with industry-standard test automation tools (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Rest Assured, JMeter, etc.).
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Gradle). Experience working with Cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Familiarity with GovCloud/FedRAMP environments is a strong plus.
• A critical mindset to discern what to automate and what not to, strategically sampling critical tests with a focus on balancing risk, cost, and value.
• Strong analytical capabilities to identify flaws in the testing process, toolset, or infrastructure, and the ability to propose and drive necessary improvements.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
•  A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required.

You are

• Because this role will support the US government, it is required candidates be a US citizen who resides on US soil.
• An independent, critical thinker who possesses natural curiosity, keen attention to detail, and the ability to act as a solution-oriented professional who uses out-of-the-box thinking to solve real-world performance challenges.
• A collaborative communicator who can demonstrate open, clear, and effective communication (verbal, technical, and written) and enjoys collaborating with globally distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Keen to explore how you can utilize AI tools and coding assistants to increase efficiency in testing and automation.
• Accustomed to working in an Agile/Kanban environment, you can prioritize workloads and see the big picture when troubleshooting quality issues.
• Passionate about expanding testing awareness across the engineering department and mentoring your peers to elevate the team's overall quality standards.

Measures of success

• Within your first month: You will complete onboarding, establish your local development environment, and gain a foundational understanding of our testing framework architecture and core customer user journeys.
• Within your third month: You will be actively delivering robust automation scripts and integrating these tests into our CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous quality feedback.
• Within your sixth month: You will lead the end-to-end automation strategy for critical user journeys, utilizing observability data to proactively eliminate bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements in overall application quality and customer satisfaction.

Compensation for this role

The standard base salary range for this position is $116,000.00 - $145,000.00 per year.This position is not eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and location.

In addition to base salary, we offer a competitive total rewards package, including bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.