Software Development Engineer In Test

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will build the systems, infrastructure, and tooling that enable a high-scale technology platform to test applications under conditions that closely replicate the real world.

This is an engineering role, not a traditional manual QA position. You will write production-quality code and build testing platforms capable of validating performance, reliability, and scalability across applications serving millions of users globally. A key challenge will be creating environments and systems that can simulate traffic and workloads that are difficult to reproduce through conventional testing environments.

You will work closely with platform engineers and the broader engineering organization to give the team confidence that new code and infrastructure will perform reliably when deployed at scale. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure, performance, and reliability problems and is comfortable independently designing solutions from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable testing systems, platforms, and infrastructure that replicate real-world production conditions
• Develop software and tooling to test application performance, reliability, scalability, and infrastructure behavior at high traffic volumes
• Build and maintain load, performance, stress, and synthetic testing capabilities for applications serving millions of users globally
• Create testing environments and processes that provide confidence that new code and infrastructure will scale successfully in production
• Write high-quality code using TypeScript, Python, or similar languages to build testing tools, automation, and supporting systems
• Design tests that identify performance bottlenecks related to latency, bandwidth, application speed, infrastructure capacity, and resource utilization
• Integrate automated testing and quality validation into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows
• Work with cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure across platforms such as AWS, Cloudflare, Google Cloud, or similar providers
• Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies to support repeatable and scalable testing environments
• Partner closely with platform engineers to understand system architecture, production behavior, and infrastructure constraints
• Analyze test results and production-like workloads to identify scalability risks before changes reach real-world traffic
• Help establish the technical standards, systems, and processes for a new engineering-focused testing function

Requirements

• Strong professional software engineering experience with the ability to independently design, build, and maintain software systems