Senior QA Automation Engineer (SDET) - Remote

MariaDB plc; United States; Remote; USD 77,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days paid annual leave

Remote or Hybrid work options

Competitive pay

Job summary

MariaDB is seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET to join the GridGain Core QA Team. You will design, develop, and maintain automated tests for a distributed database platform, focusing on reliability, performance, and scale.

The role supports remote or hybrid work and offers competitive pay, plus generous leave and a culture that values clean engineering. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in QA/automation, strong Java skills, and experience with NoSQL or distributed databases,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance and test automation, or software engineering.
• Strong Java programming skills and knowledge of the Java ecosystem.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests and frameworks.
• Experience testing distributed or backend systems.
• Solid understanding of multithreading; concurrency; networking; distributed systems concepts; transactions; consistency models.
• Experience with NoSQL and/or distributed databases, especially Apache Ignite or GridGain.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with MariaDB or other relational databases.
• Experience with modern AI tools and applying them to improve engineering productivity.
• Experience with performance testing, profiling, and troubleshooting complex systems.
• Location Remote – Georgia, Armenia, Cyprus, Serbia, Bulgaria.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests and support frameworks for functional and performance testing.
• Participate in release testing activities and contribute to improving the release validation process.
• Validate new product features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
• Investigate complex issues involving distributed transactions, replication, networking, storage, and cluster management.
• Design and implement automation solutions to reduce manual effort and improve team productivity.

Skills

Java programming

Test automation

Distributed systems

NoSQL databases

Docker & Kubernetes

MariaDB/Relational DBs

AI tooling for engineering

Performance testing

Multithreading & Concurrency

Backend testing

Tools

Apache Ignite

GridGain

Docker

Kubernetes

MariaDB

Job description

MariaDB is seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET to join the GridGain Core QA Team. You will design, develop, and maintain automated tests for a distributed database platform, focusing on reliability, performance, and scale.

The role supports remote or hybrid work and offers competitive pay, plus generous leave and a culture that values clean engineering. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in QA/automation, strong Java skills, and experience with NoSQL or distributed databases,