Principal QA Architect — Distributed DB & AI-Driven Testing

Jobgether; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, is seeking a Principal Software Quality Engineer in the United States. This senior IC role defines and drives quality strategy for a distributed database platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and resilience.

You will lead testing frameworks, design comprehensive strategies, and collaborate across quality, client, and server engineering teams. Experience with AI-assisted testing and complex debugging is valued.

Qualifications

• Senior technical individual-contributor role defining and driving quality strategy for a distributed database platform.
• Experience integrating AI agents into testing workflows and frameworks.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and influence quality practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall quality strategy for the distributed database platform, including test architecture and risk-based prioritization.
• Drive quality across database server components, client SDKs, operators, backup tooling, and management interfaces.
• Design comprehensive testing strategies for replication, rebalancing, partitioning, sharding, consistency models, and transactions.
• Establish reliable test coverage for critical database operations and ensure quality requirements are addressed early in development lifecycle.
• Validate cluster correctness under production-like failure conditions, including node crashes and network partitions.
• Design and execute fault-injection scenarios involving process crashes and state manipulation with debugging tools.

Skills

Distributed systems

Testing automation

Systems debugging

Quality strategy

Tools

GDB

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, is seeking a Principal Software Quality Engineer in the United States. This senior IC role defines and drives quality strategy for a distributed database platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and resilience.

You will lead testing frameworks, design comprehensive strategies, and collaborate across quality, client, and server engineering teams. Experience with AI-assisted testing and complex debugging is valued.