Staff SDET: Architect of Scalable Test Automation

Meta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test to drive quality engineering strategy across large-scale software systems. You will define and lead the test engineering vision for distributed systems, embedding quality practices across the software lifecycle and partnering with product, infrastructure, and platform teams.

You will design scalable test automation frameworks, establish standards for test design, and own quality metrics and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software development engineering in test, quality engineering, or software engineering with a focus on test infrastructure and automation.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale test automation frameworks and CI/CD quality pipelines for distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term quality engineering strategy and test architecture for large-scale, distributed software systems across multiple product areas.
• Design and build scalable test automation frameworks, infrastructure, and tooling that can be adopted organization-wide to improve reliability and coverage.
• Lead cross-functional quality initiatives by partnering with product engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to identify systemic quality gaps and drive resolution.
• Establish standards and best practices for test design, including unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and chaos/fault-injection testing methodologies.
• Develop and own quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting systems that provide actionable signal on product health, test coverage, and release readiness.
• Evaluate and improve CI/CD pipeline quality gates, staged rollout validation processes, and feature flagging strategies to reduce production incidents.
• Identify and resolve systemic reliability, scalability, and performance issues through root cause analysis and proactive test coverage improvements.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across quality and product engineering teams, elevating overall test engineering craft.
• Influence engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions by advocating for testability, observability, and quality as first-class engineering requirements.
• Drive adoption of quality engineering practices across the organization through documentation, tooling, and cross-team enablement programs.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Performance testing

Fault injection

Mentorship

Roadmap influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

Automation frameworks

Job description

Meta seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test to drive quality engineering strategy across large-scale software systems. You will define and lead the test engineering vision for distributed systems, embedding quality practices across the software lifecycle and partnering with product, infrastructure, and platform teams.

You will design scalable test automation frameworks, establish standards for test design, and own quality metrics and dashboards.