Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Development Engineer in Test will collaborate with software developers to ensure timely and quality product delivery by designing automated test frameworks and managing test plans. Key skills include experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, proficiency in programming languages such as Go or Python, and a solid understanding of CI pipelines and automated testing. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a background in software development or quality engineering who thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Tigera's career page.
- Tigera has 6 other open roles including Senior AI/ML Engineer , Account Executive - Enterprise , Account Executive - Enterprise .
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- 1063 active Kubernetes roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for QA roles (median ~$70,720).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Development Engineer in Test role remote?
- It's hybrid — Tigera expects some on-site time in Vancouver.
- What's the salary range?
- Tigera lists CAD 125,000–CAD 150,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Development Engineer in Test role.
- Where is the role based?
- Tigera is hiring for this position in Vancouver.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Terraform, AWS, GKE, OpenShift, Go, Rancher.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Tigera targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Development Engineer in Test role at Tigera.
From the original posting
Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution.
Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.
As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.
If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!
Role Description
You will be joining our Delivery Engineering team. You will work closely with the other software developers to deliver products on time and to quality while managing and communicating risks. To do this, you will design and implement new automated test frameworks (integration / system level testing rather than unit level tests), manage projects and test plans, write test tools, and have a passion for finding bugs through exploratory test methods and spotting the edge cases the developers have missed!
This role is hybrid based in Vancouver
Salary range: CA$120,000 to CA$145,000 + stock options
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of industry experience in software development, quality engineering and/or DevOps.
Experience should include:
- Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (highly desired).
- A breadth of programming languages, SDKs and test frameworks - Go (Golang) or Python experience is highly desirable.
- Defining and implementing end-to-end CI pipelines, automated test frameworks, and automated tests.
- Shell scripting, GNU makefiles, and Linux sysadmin / networking.
- Project management and team leadership.
- Having worked with many of the following: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, SemaphoreCI, Ginkgo, GCP, AWS, GKE, EKS, AKS, Rancher, and OpenShift.
With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.