Senior QA Engineer

Tigera; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Tigera is seeking a QA Engineer to own quality for Lynx end to end. You will be embedded with a small, high-autonomy engineering team, building test strategy, automation, and release confidence for a product that runs at the intersection of Kubernetes, runtime telemetry, and AI.

This hands-on role requires writing automated tests, building harnesses, and validating detections as models evolve, ensuring releases are reliable across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software QA or test engineering, with a strong bias toward automation over manual testing.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for test automation (Python preferred).
• Hands-on experience testing distributed systems, APIs, and backend services.
• Working knowledge of containers and technology like Docker
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them.
• Strong debugging instincts and the ability to isolate root cause across a multi-service system
• Excellent written and verbal communication - clear bug reports, clear test plans, clear recommendations.
• Must be comfortable with, and an advocate for, AI tooling in your day-to-day workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy for Lynx across unit, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.
• Design and build automated test suites and CI pipelines that give the team fast, trustworthy signal on every change.
• Test distributed, Kubernetes-native systems: multi-node clusters, telemetry pipelines, and services under realistic load and failure conditions.
• Develop approaches for validating ML-driven behaviour - detections, risk scores, and behavioural baselines - including regression testing, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation of false-positive/false-negative rates.
• Build tooling, fixtures, and synthetic data that let the team reproduce agent behaviour and edge cases reliably.
• Investigate, isolate, and clearly report defects, driving them to resolution with engineering.
• Serve as the quality voice in design and release decisions, and help define what "ready to ship" means for a security product.

Skills

QA automation

Python

Distributed systems testing

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Bug investigation

Technical communication

AI tooling

Tools

CI tools

Test harness

Job description

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!

About Lynx

AI agents are showing up in enterprise infrastructure faster than platform teams can identify and security teams can govern them. Lynx is our answer: a new product built to detect agents at runtime, understand their behaviour, and distinguish legitimate activity from misbehaviour.

We're a focused engineering team working on the hard parts, and we ship fast. Quality is what lets us keep shipping fast without breaking the trust our customers place in a security product.

About the Role

We're looking for a QA Engineer to own quality for Lynx end to end. You'll be embedded with a small, high-autonomy engineering team, building the test strategy, automation, and release confidence for a product that runs at the intersection of Kubernetes, runtime telemetry, and AI.

This is a hands-on role for someone who treats quality as engineering, not gatekeeping. You'll write automated tests, build the harnesses and fixtures the team relies on, hunt down the failures that only surface at scale, and be the person who can say with evidence whether a release is ready. You will advocate for the customer and help release great products fast, with high confidence across a range of supported platforms. Because Lynx makes security decisions from behavioural signals, you'll also help us reason about a harder question than "does it pass": is a detection correct, and how do we prove it stays correct as the models and data evolve?

You Will

• Own the test strategy for Lynx across unit, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.
• Design and build automated test suites and CI pipelines that give the team fast, trustworthy signal on every change.
• Test distributed, Kubernetes-native systems: multi-node clusters, telemetry pipelines, and services under realistic load and failure conditions.
• Develop approaches for validating ML-driven behaviour - detections, risk scores, and behavioural baselines - including regression testing, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation of false-positive/false-negative rates.
• Build tooling, fixtures, and synthetic data that let the team reproduce agent behaviour and edge cases reliably.
• Investigate, isolate, and clearly report defects, driving them to resolution with engineering.
• Serve as the quality voice in design and release decisions, and help define what "ready to ship" means for a security product.

You Have

• 5+ years in software QA or test engineering, with a strong bias toward automation over manual testing.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for test automation (Python preferred).
• Hands-on experience testing distributed systems, APIs, and backend services.
• Working knowledge of containers and technology like Docker
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them.
• Strong debugging instincts and the ability to isolate root cause across a multi-service system
• Excellent written and verbal communication - clear bug reports, clear test plans, clear recommendations.
• Must be comfortable with, and an advocate for, AI tooling in your day-to-day workflows.

Nice to Have

• Experience testing AI-powered applications or AI/ML systems is a huge advantage! Including prompt and agent testing, LLM evaluation, RAG validation, hallucination and safety testing, regression testing of AI behaviour, benchmark creation etc
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and comfort operating clusters for testing.
• Familiarity with observability and telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces; tools such as ClickHouse, Prometheus, or similar).
• Experience validating ML or data-driven systems, or building evaluation/ground-truth datasets.
• Exposure to eBPF, kernel telemetry, or runtime security tooling.
• Open-source contributions to testing frameworks or infrastructure projects.
• Small team with high autonomy, working closely with engineering and reporting into the Lynx engineering leadership.
• In-office twice weekly (Mondays and Wednesdays).
• Use of Claude Code internally is expected, we build with AI, and we test the things we build with it.
• Opportunities to shape quality practice for a brand-new product from the ground up.
• Multiple office locations globally.

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.