Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects. Intelligent data tiering and data management deliver consistent high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. The company is backed by Andreessen-Horowitz and has received numerous accolades including recently being named: One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies of 2021. We are in a high growth mode with a lot of opportunities, looking for driven, enthusiastic and creative people to join our team!
Responsibilities:
- As a Senior Software Quality Engineer in the Alluxio QA team, you will be responsible for various aspects of delivering the Alluxio project as a product into the hands of our users. You’ll be involved from beginning to end of the development process, from understanding the motivations behind the issues to solve with the product team, designing and implementing solutions with other engineers, and supporting the features and tools after they are deployed. The ability to learn and execute independently while operating in cloud-based environments is a must to keep up with the fast paced growth.
- This is a hands-on role in which you will design and implement comprehensive testing frameworks, improving productivity of our development/QE teams and bringing standardization to our processes and practices. You will author and enhance test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers. Partner with customer facing people such as PMs,SEs, Engineering to better understand how customers interface and use our product and to investigate, troubleshoot and identify fixes for customer-facing issues.You will also have the opportunity to work on our internal deployment infrastructure.This infrastructure needs the capability to deploy Alluxio with an enormous number of storage systems and compute frameworks. It automates all deployment steps, like exposing the deployment, configuration, and job execution of these clusters generically for other engineers to build their use cases from. The infrastructure also serves as the backbone for benchmarking the performance of Alluxio. This is an awesome opportunity to work with cutting edge technology in a highly visible role.
Essential Requirements：
- BS or Master degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of software development experience in Golang, Python and/or Java, or similar languages, specifically Automation Testing, Test Framework development
- 2+ years experience delivering quality software in a large distributed system with emphasis on functional and performance automation, workloads and testing
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like Jenkins
- Experience working with software development on Linux system
- Strong technical and conversational English language skills to be able to work with global teams and customers
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining Test Automation Frameworks
- Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
- Familiarity with cloud deployment tools and services (ex. Terraform preferably, AWS EMR, GCP dataproc)
- Experience contributing to and/or maintaining an open source project.
- Ability and desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
- Experience on one specific native cloud, ex. Azure, AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud etc.
- Contributed or contributing to Alluxio.
