Product Assurance Engineer

Oxide Computer Company; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxide Computer Company is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team focused on delivering a high-quality product. You will exercise typical customer use cases, collect performance data, and simulate real-world workloads to ensure reliability.

You will collaborate across engineering, PM, and other stakeholders, driving improvements to testing, release processes, and automation while growing your expertise in a dynamic, fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Background in DevOps or SRE with distributed systems and multi-tier deployment.
• Hands-on software development, CI/CD pipeline, and test automation experience.
• Experience working with complex deliverables across multiple teams.
• Strong written communication within engineering teams and across the company.
• Interest in operating between traditional roles and silos; eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with varying internal and external stakeholders to assure that we deliver a product that meets our customers' needs and expectations.
• Be the first consumer of every product release - kick the tires by exercising common customer use cases, gathering performance metrics, and operating the rack like a customer would.
• Contribute to CI/CD and test infrastructure projects to help improve automated test reliability and turnaround time.
• Refine quality and release processes with Program Management and Engineering to assure that we continue to deliver a product that improves with every iteration.
• Contribute to other areas of the product that interest you–beyond your day-to-day product assurance duties.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

Test automation

Distributed systems

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Are you a curious, detail-oriented person who loves shipping polished products? We are seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to work on a multi-disciplinary team to assure that Oxide ships the highest quality product to our customers.

As a Product Assurance Engineer working at Oxide, you will:

• Collaborate with varying internal and external stakeholders to assure that we deliver a product that meets our customers' needs and expectations.
• Be the first consumer of every product release - kick the tires by exercising common customer use cases, gathering performance metrics, and operating the rack like a customer would.
• Contribute to CI/CD and test infrastructure projects to help improve automated test reliability and turnaround time.
• Refine quality and release processes with Program Management and Engineering to assure that we continue to deliver a product that improves with every iteration.
• Contribute to other areas of the product that interest you–beyond your day-to-day product assurance duties.

These responsibilities are just a starting place! We’re a small company, we don’t have rigid roles, and we have a lot to do – we can help you grow wherever your interests take you.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in DevOps or SRE, and working knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tier application deployment.
• Have hands-on experience with software development, CI/CD pipeline, and test automation.
• Have previously worked with complex deliverables involving multiple teams.
• Drive clear communication within engineering teams and between engineering teams and the rest of the company.
• Are energized by the thought of operating between traditional roles and silos.
• Value the written word and can concisely communicate in written form.
• Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deeply into them.

If you don’t meet 100% of these qualifications you should still seriously consider applying – at least one of us was missing each of these at the outset!

Before applying for this role, you should:

• Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.
• Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
• Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.