Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Testing Platform

Sofi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi is seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join the Test Platform team. You will shape the Developer Platform, tooling and autonomous testing capabilities that empower SoFi engineers to build reliable services.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable, resilient testing platforms leveraging AI for test generation and failure analysis, while advancing CI/CD practices in cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (Istio/Envoy).
• Strong understanding of software design principles and distributed systems architecture.
• Proven programming skills (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go) in developing enterprise-scale systems.
• Expertise in automated testing strategies, testing in production, test tenancy, API mocking, traffic capture, routing and playback technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about Testing and Reliability domains.
• Ability to manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch.
• Effective communication and collaboration in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Testing and Reliability initiatives, with AI-driven automation and autonomous testing focus.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design platform capabilities that are efficient, robust and developer-friendly.
• Architect and implement solutions for integration, load, performance and chaos testing, including AI-based test generation and failure analysis.
• Deliver software enabling testing and operation of backend systems in cloud-native, containerized CI/CD environments.
• Research, prototype and productionize AI/ML tools to boost developer productivity and test coverage.
• Lead code reviews and promote continuous improvement practices across the team.
• Champion best practices for code health, test automation, environment stability and maintainability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Communication

Project ownership

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Istio

Envoy

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

Job description

SoFi is seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join the Test Platform team. You will shape the Developer Platform, tooling and autonomous testing capabilities that empower SoFi engineers to build reliable services.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable, resilient testing platforms leveraging AI for test generation and failure analysis, while advancing CI/CD practices in cloud-native environments.