Senior Software Engineer (Python)

About Us

At Sauce Labs, we empower the world's top enterprises - like Walmart, Bank of America, and Indeed - to deliver quality web and mobile applications at speed. Our industry-leading platform ensures continuous quality across the SDLC, using AI-powered analytics to identify key quality signals from development through production. With our unified solution, teams can release and innovate with confidence, knowing their apps will always look, function, and perform exactly as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence - join us!

The Role

The VDC group is responsible for the orchestration layer, which maintains a lifecycle of all resources required by customers to execute their tests successfully. We help customers build digital confidence by providing an entry point to access Sauce Labs' vast amount of testing resources.

The role is backend-heavy. Being a Senior Software Engineer at the VDC group means you will take care of all new and existing services, API's, and other resources our group owns. It includes not only software artifacts but also architecture design, broad inter-team collaboration, and discussions on product requirements.

Responsibilities

• Implement features and improvements to the orchestration layer of our test platform.
• Actively collaborate with Product-Engineering stakeholders to maintain high standards of quality in our iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to our platform scale, performance, architecture, and engineering quality.
• Propose and implement solutions to improve our team's efficiency. Specifically addressing tech-debt and hidden dependencies.
• Ship small features and improvements regularly with minimum guidance. Actively assist the team in collaborating on larger initiatives.
• Participate in weekday and weekend on-call rotations to assist teams in troubleshooting urgent customer-facing problems and other engineering issues.
• Participate in our team's software delivery process, which includes refining work items and discussing priorities and outcomes for the upcoming period.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of software development experience, including distributed systems and online services
• Experience with Python 2/3
• Experience with one of the following languages - C/C++/C#/Java
• Experience with Golang OR strong desire to learn Golang
• Experience with GCP and Kubernetes
• Experience with Observability Alerting (SRE handbook / Prometheus / Grafana)

Nice To Have Skills

• GitLab
• HAProxy
• Redis
• Terraform
• Webdriver
• Docker or compatible technology

We are a hybrid workplace that recognizes the importance of flexibility while valuing in-person collaboration and relationship building. As a result, Saucers located near an office location must be able and willing to come into the office. Those hired remotely must be able and willing to travel to an office as required by the specific role.

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