Senior Backend Engineer (Automated Team) @ Sauce Labs

Senior Backend Engineer (Automated Team)

For Sauce Labs

About Us:

Sauce Labs lives at the intersection of agile software delivery and the infrastructure required to enable fast turnaround cycles and frequent releases. We feel passionate about building a product which enables software development teams to ship high-quality software faster.

The Role:

Sauce Labs, a successful and rapidly growing startup building high availability software testing tools for developers and enterprises, is looking for passionate Senior Backend Engineers to add to its Automated Engineering team. The Sauce Labs Automated team empowers the business to provide virtual testing environments on-demand, enable users to test against those environments at extremely high levels of concurrency, and provide the plasma for test data aggregation and analysis. You’ll be a critical player in an agile development team, working closely with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and other outstanding engineers to create great outcomes and drive the future of Sauce Labs products and services.

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of software development experience, with significant time spent developing backend web services and APIs

• Deep knowledge of modern Python and asynchronous programming paradigms

• Familiarity with service oriented architecture and microservices

• Hands on experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes

• Solid understanding of the underlying technologies that power fast, safe, and rich web experiences, from HTTP to SSL to WebSockets, and especially API principles like rate limiting, caching, streaming, etc…

• Demonstrated focus on testing and performance

• Familiarity with agile software and test driven development

• Strong sense of ownership and passion for engineering great products with stellar user experiences

• Intimate involvement with developer communities and open source web technologies from servers to front-end frameworks

You Will:

• Provide technical leadership while personally developing, defining, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest frameworks and patterns.

• Research and prototype new products and solutions using open source technologies

• Design and implement micro-services for use in a massive, highly scalable cloud-based environment

• Integrate new and existing services with first-class third-party PAAS providers

• Participate in the entire development lifecycle, from planning through implementation, documentation, testing, and deployment, all the way to monitoring.

• Produce high quality, maintainable code with great test coverage.

• Make intelligent choices for the adoption of new technologies based on your extensive experience.

• Enable massive scalability of our services and APIs while ensuring no negative consequences on our upstream data sources and perfect user experience on the customer side, including graceful degradation of data consumption.

• Protect our systems and our data from exploits, DDOS attacks, or other security vulnerabilities.

• Push our systems and services to be highly performative and scalable.

• Create visibility into services and systems through the application of business intelligence and monitoring tools and methodologies.

What we can offer:

• Competitive salaries

• Health, dental, vision insurance

• 401K matching

• Generous vacation

• Casual work environment with some of the leaders in the field

Sauce Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.