Python Job: Senior Software Engineer

About Us:
In today's software-centric economy, speed is everything. The pressure to deliver more, faster, falls squarely on development teams. Sauce Labs accelerates software development by removing testing as a bottleneck. Our automated testing cloud ensures that the web and mobile applications people use everyday work flawlessly on any browser or device. With Sauce, innovators accelerate their software development cycles, improve quality, deploy with confidence and reduce costs. We call that automated testing. But you'll probably just call it awesome.
About the role:
The Core Services team is responsible for the orchestration layer which maintains a lifecycle of all resources required by customers to successfully execute their tests. We help customers build digital confidence by providing an entry point to access the Sauce Labs vast amount of testing resources.
Being a Senior Software Engineer at Core team means you will take care of all new and existing services, API's and other resources our team owns. It includes not only software artifacts but also architecture design, wide inter-team collaboration and product requirements discussion.
Responsibilities:

• Implement features and improvements to the orchestration layer of our test platform.
• Actively collaborate with Product-Engineering stakeholders to maintain high expectations for 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 efficiency. Specifically addressing tech-debt and hidden dependencies.
• Make choices for the adoption of new technologies based on your extensive experience.
• Try to ship small features and improvements on a regular basis with minimum guidance. Actively help the team to collaborate with bigger initiatives.
• Participate in weekday and weekend on-call rotations to help teams troubleshoot urgent customer facing problems and other engineering issues.
• Participate in our team process of software delivery which includes refinement of work items, discussion about priorities and outcomes the team defines for the coming time period.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience, including distributed systems and online services
• Proficiency in developing backend services in Python and/or Golang.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Helm.
• Understanding of major cloud computing concepts, networking and automation.
• Experience in designing and running software services in unreliable cloud environments.
• Proficient in maintaining CI/CD tools like Gitlab, ArgoCD etc.
• Familiarity with service oriented architecture and microservices.
• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, HTTP, SSL, WebSocket, and other network technologies that power today's Web.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Comfort working in an agile, iterative software development process.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience owning an epic or project from concept to production, including proposal, scope discussion, and implementation.
• Proven ability to cooperate with other parts of the organization. Leaning towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with the modern monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar
• Open Source software contributions
• Experience working with a remote team, preferably in a tech startup organization.

Security responsibilities at Sauce:
At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You'll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org wide level and exercise a 'security first' approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.
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Job Type: Full-time