Systems Test Engineer

About the Role:

In this role, you will collaborate closely with Customer Success and Product Support teams to ensure the highest level of product quality, enabling seamless customer experiences. You will develop and maintain tools to deploy, provision and configure infrastructure used in the development and release of Redpanda Data’s line of products. Working within the Developer Productivity (DevProd) team, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of Redpanda's software delivery processes and practices. This is an opportunity to work closely with product and engineering leadership and teams at a fast-growing, well-funded startup.

You Will:

• Implement end-to-end pipelines that provision Redpanda in cloud infrastructure, as well as other software and services that produce and consume data from it; verify the correct behavior of the system
• Design, implement and maintain tooling that is used by Redpanda engineers as part of the software development process
• Interact and  obtain feedback from developers about their experience with the goal of incorporating it into new releases of the dev internal tooling
• Closely collaborate with product teams (including Customer Success and Product Management) to ensure we continuously ship a solid and reliable product

You Have: 

• 5+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure for the purposes of deploying, testing and releasing data or storage systems
• Created end-to-end workflows that deploy a distributed system like Redpanda, and applications that use it (data analytics, SQL engines, and similar data systems), particularly for the purposes of testing end-to-end system behavior
• Collaborated with product managers and engineers to design end-to-end user journeys that are verified through automated workflows
• Proficiency in writing and reading Python or Go programs, in addition toexcellent shell scripting skills
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure automation framework
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to concisely explain rationale for design choices from the perspective of quality assurance and verification
• Familiar with working at a fast-moving, 100% distributed engineering and product team

Please highlight if applicable to you:

• Experience with chaos testing and deploying stateful services in Kubernetes
• Working with streaming engines such as Kafka or Pulsar
• Deploying data pipelines in the context of end-to-end system testing