Principal Software Quality Engineer

About the role

We are looking for an accomplished Principal Software Quality Engineer to define and lead the quality strategy for a sophisticated distributed database platform. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will drive reliability, scalability, and product excellence across database infrastructure, client SDKs, and management tools.

What you'll do

• Quality Strategy and Test Architecture: Define and own the overall quality strategy for the distributed database platform, including test architecture, coverage models
• Drive quality across server components, client SDKs, database operators, backup tools, and management interfaces
• Fault-Injection and Reliability Testing: Validate cluster behavior under production-like failure conditions, including node crashes, network partitions, clock skew
• Advanced Debugging and Root-Cause Analysis: Investigate complex system-level defects involving memory access, serialization, encoding and decoding, compression
• Reproduce issues at source-code level, identify potential root causes, and provide engineering teams with minimal reproducible test cases and actionable technical reports

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Python
• Java
• Go
• C++
• CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Any graduate

Good to have

• MongoDB
• Redis
• Node.js
• NoSQL
• DynamoDB
• Cassandra