Description
Compensation
The base salary for this role is $180K – $225K, with equity offered.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Staff SDET to own quality architecture and engineering strategy for our most critical systems and lead the application of AI across our testing and release pipeline.
Why This Role Is Different
- AI is the core of the work, focusing on using LLMs and agents for test generation, failure triage, self-healing, and release decisioning.
- You'll test AI, not just test with it, building evaluation harnesses, golden datasets, and probabilistic assertions.
- Real autonomy and scope to set the technical direction for quality engineering.
Responsibilities
Own Quality Architecture and Strategy
- Own quality architecture for critical systems and initiatives, defining long-term quality strategy aligned with business and product goals.
- Design shared quality platforms, automation frameworks, and test infrastructure adopted across multiple teams.
- Establish quality patterns and guardrails that scale across teams.
- Anticipate systemic quality and reliability risks and drive preventative architectural solutions.
- Set the standard for what "great" looks like in quality engineering at scale.
Lead Our AI-Driven Testing Strategy
- Define and drive the strategy for AI-assisted testing, including autonomous test generation, intelligent test selection, and self-healing automation.
- Build guardrails that make AI-driven testing trustworthy.
- Orchestrate AI agents as part of the CI/CD decision pipeline.
- Own quality for AI-powered product features, designing eval suites, golden datasets, and statistical approaches.
- Establish how to test AI-generated application code.
- Evaluate emerging AI testing tooling.
Raise the Bar Operationally and Across the Team
- Lead the operational maturity of quality systems and signals.
- Produce exemplary technical artifacts.
- Serve as the accountable technical leader for strategic initiatives.
- Mentor senior SDETs, quality engineers, and other senior technical leaders.
- Establish hiring standards, coaching, and talent development.
- Champion customer-centric quality decisions.
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to embed scalability and resilience into roadmap planning.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in quality engineering or SDET roles.
- Proven track record designing and scaling test automation frameworks.
- Deep proficiency in one or more programming languages.
- Hands-on experience applying AI to testing.
- Demonstrated ability to define quality architecture and standards that scale across many teams.
- Strong grasp of modern development and delivery practices.
- Experience mentoring and developing senior quality engineers and senior technical leaders.
- History of leading post-incident and root-cause analysis.
- Excellent judgment on trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term system resilience and maintainability.
- Strong executive communication skills.
- Experience with performance and load testing at scale.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with LLM observability and evaluation tooling.
- Experience with cloud-based testing platforms and tools.
- Familiarity with e-commerce or healthcare platforms and quality-at-scale practices in regulated environments.
- Experience with internationalization and localization testing.
- A track record of building quality engineering communities of practice.
- Published writing, talks, or open-source work on modern testing practice or AI in quality engineering.
- Experience building evaluation or testing infrastructure for LLM-based or ML-driven product features.
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity compensation.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days.
- Comprehensive health benefits.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- 401k benefits with employer matching contribution.
- Offsite team retreats.