Senior Software Development Engineer – Test

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks for cloud-scale distributed systems.

• Architect performance, load, and stress testing to ensure resilience under high traffic conditions.

• Create fault-injection and chaos-engineering methods to evaluate the reliability of distributed services.

• Develop and implement end-to-end integration, API, and system-level tests within microservices architectures.

• Establish continuous-testing pipelines integrated into CI/CD workflows.

• Work collaboratively with development, SRE, and infrastructure teams to incorporate quality practices in the SDLC.

• Analyze logs, telemetry, and observability metrics to proactively identify and resolve failures before they impact production.

• Automate security testing, API contract validation, and infrastructure assessments.

• Participate in on-call duties for critical production reliability and performance challenges.

• Influence Runpod’s QA testing strategy, automation frameworks, and quality standards across GPU Pods, Serverless endpoints, batch jobs, Instant Clusters, storage, and billing systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in QA Automation, SDET, Software Engineering, or a related technical domain.

• Proficiency in testing cloud-scale distributed systems for reliability, performance, and scalability.

• Strong programming abilities in at least one language, ideally Python, Golang, or TypeScript.

• Experience in creating test automation frameworks for intricate microservices architectures.

• Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automated deployment methodologies.

• Familiarity with load testing tools such as Locust, k6, or JMeter.

• Experience with observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.

• Background in testing containerized applications and Kubernetes environments.

• Expertise in chaos engineering and fault-injection frameworks such as Chaos Mesh, Gremlin, or LitmusChaos.

• Knowledge of distributed tracing and debugging within cloud-native environments.

• Experience with message queues, databases, and event-driven architectures like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Redis.

• Successful completion of a background check is required.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States; Runpod is currently unable to provide sponsorship for employment visas.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity; all team members receive stock options.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Remote-first work culture.

• $1,200 stipend for home office and equipment.

• A learning-oriented, culture-driven, and ownership-focused team environment.