Senior SDET: Scalable Test Automation & Reliability

Meta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test to drive quality and reliability across large-scale software systems. You will design and build automated test infrastructure, validation pipelines, and testing frameworks to enable engineering teams to ship high-quality software with confidence.

Responsibilities include leading test strategy across product areas, embedding testability early in design, and building observability for test health metrics to support executive decisions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software development engineering in test, test automation, or quality engineering roles
• Experience designing and building automated test frameworks and infrastructure for large-scale systems
• Experience with performance, load, or reliability testing methodologies and tooling
• Experience identifying root causes of test failures and production defects through debugging and analysis

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable automated test frameworks, test harnesses, and validation infrastructure for large-scale distributed systems
• Define end-to-end testing strategies including unit, integration, system, regression, and performance testing across multiple product areas
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers to embed testability requirements early in the software design and development lifecycle
• Develop tooling and pipelines to improve test coverage, test execution speed, and signal quality across CI/CD workflows

Skills

Test automation

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Meta is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test to drive quality and reliability across large-scale software systems. You will design and build automated test infrastructure, validation pipelines, and testing frameworks to enable engineering teams to ship high-quality software with confidence.

Responsibilities include leading test strategy across product areas, embedding testability early in design, and building observability for test health metrics to support executive decisions.