Senior Software Quality Engineer (Foster City, CA)
Foster City, California
Customer Success /
Full-time /
On-site
Proven at a global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open-source data orchestration software for large-scale analytics and AI. Alluxio is in production use today at eight out of the top ten internet companies, and seven of the ten highest-valued companies in the world. Our mission is to orchestrate data for all data-driven applications in any cloud!
As customers continuously push the envelope for ways to extract value from data, Alluxio is driving innovation in data access and management for large-scale distributed systems. Alluxio is charging full steam to help customers navigate digital transformation. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Hillhouse Capital, and Seven Seas Partners. Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open-source project.
Alluxio data orchestration platform is a new layer between storage and compute engines. This new data layer serves data to large-scale analytics and AI in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds, and countries, providing simplified data access to files and objects. Features like intelligent caching, unified namespace, and data management provide agility and cost efficiency to customers in financial services, high-tech, retail, and telecommunications.
Alluxio has received numerous accolades, including recently being named: One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies of 2021. Alluxio is trusted by Meta, Uber, Tencent, Tiktok, Alibaba, Expedia, Rakuten, Microsoft, Walmart, and more! Please review Wikipedia to learn more about us! Join our world-class team of empathetic, enthusiastic, and creative people who can work on some of the toughest big data problems.
About the role:
- As a Senior Software Quality Engineer in the Alluxio QA team, you will be responsible for various aspects of delivering the Alluxio project as a product into the hands of our users. You’ll be involved from beginning to end of the development process, from understanding the motivations behind the issues to solve with the product team, designing and implementing solutions with other engineers, and supporting the features and tools after they are deployed. The ability to learn and execute independently while operating in cloud-based environments is a must to keep up with the fast paced growth.
As the Senior Software Quality Engineer at Alluxio, What You Will Be Able To Build and Own:
- This is a hands-on role in which you will design and implement comprehensive testing frameworks, improving the productivity of our development/QE teams and bringing standardization to our processes and practices.
- You will author and enhance Test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers.
- Partner with customer-facing people such as PMs,SEs, and Engineers to better understand how customers interface with and use our product and to investigate, troubleshoot, and identify fixes for customer-facing issues.
- This an awesome opportunity to work with cutting edge technology in a highly visible role.
As the Senior Software Quality Engineer at Alluxio, What We are Looking For:
- BS or Master degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of software development experience in Golang, Python and/or Java, or similar languages
- 1+ years of relevant experience in Quality Engineering, specifically Automation Testing, Test Framework development
- Experience delivering quality software in a large distributed system with emphasis on functional and performance automation, workloads and testingIn-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like JenkinsExperience working with software development on Linux system
- Strong technical and conversational English language skills to be able to work with global teams and customers.
As the Senior Software Quality Engineer at Alluxio, We Would Appreciate if You Have:
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining Test Automation Frameworks
- High proficiency coding in Golang, Python and/or Java preferred.
- Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.Experience contributing to and/or maintaining an open-source project.
- Ability and desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
- Familiarity with cloud providers (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- A contributor to Alluxio.
$130,000 - $150,000 a year
Alluxio is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.
The base salary range for this US full-time position is subject to standard withholding and applicable taxes. All candidates receive equity (stock options) and access to a comprehensive benefits offering. The base salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for candidates across all US locations. Work location, skills, experience, and any relevant education or training determine the compensation awarded to the candidate. The Recruiting Team or Hiring Manager can share more about the specific salary range with you during the recruitment process.
