Staff SDET

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB , the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide. Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits. Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries. About Yugabyte At Yugabyte , we are on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications . Our flagship product, YugabyteDB , is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database purpose-built for cloud-native workloads. It is resilient, scalable, and flexible—capable of running across any cloud or on-premises infrastructure. With familiar APIs and developer-friendly tools, YugabyteDB empowers developers to be instantly productive. The transactional database market is projected to reach $64B by 2025 , and YugabyteDB’s cloud-native design , horizontal scalability , and geo-distribution capabilities position us perfectly to meet this demand. Many of the world’s leading enterprises are migrating from legacy RDBMSs (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2) to YugabyteDB to power their mission-critical applications. Join the Database Revolution at Yugabyte! Team The Database QA team is where distributed systems theory meets real-world chaos. We own the end-to-end quality of YugabyteDB, rigorously validating everything from core storage and language layers (YSQL/YCQL) to high-impact features like Change Data Capture. By blending performance engineering with system-level stress testing, we ensure our database thrives in the most unpredictable production environments. We are the champions of correctness in a distributed world. Role Are you obsessed with finding the 'impossible' bug? In this role, you will build and break distributed systems at scale. As an SDET at Yugabyte, you will design sophisticated automation and chaos-testing frameworks that simulate real-world disasters to validate our database’s core promises. You’ll dive deep into cross-feature integration and security, collaborating with development teams to influence the product's evolution. We’re looking for a technical leader who can transform complex customer scenarios into rigorous stress tests, ensuring YugabyteDB remains the gold standard for distributed SQL. Responsibilities Architect, develop and maintain test automation frameworks. Design and execute comprehensive test suites focusing on the "hard problems" of distributed databases: stress, resiliency, scalability, and performance. Design and orchestrate distributed systems tests that simulate real-world failure modes. Own the end-to-end quality of major features, from initial design review and test planning to production-ready automation Modernize existing test footprints by identifying opportunities for redesign, improved efficiency, and higher stability in CI/CD pipelines. Uncover deep-seated bugs such as data corruption and consistency violations. Deep-dive into the codebase to understand technical dependencies and execution paths, ensuring tests target the most critical logic. Scale our test infrastructure, ensuring that the built tests scale with our growing feature set. Define and inspire changes to our product with our development engineering team based on feedback from tests and customer issues. Act as a technical lead for junior engineers and serve as an internal advocate for the customer experience. Develop and contribute to internal and external knowledge bases. Be a champion for our customers. Go above and beyond to ensure customers are getting the most out of their investment in the Yugabyte databa…