Senior Backend Engineer

Location Preference: National Capital Region, New Delhi

About Us:

At Sauce Labs, we empower the world's top enterprises - like Walmart, Bank of America, and Indeed - to deliver quality web and mobile applications at speed. Our industry-leading platform ensures continuous quality across the SDLC, using AI-powered analytics to identify key quality signals from development through production. With our unified solution, teams can release and innovate with confidence, knowing their apps will always look, function, and perform exactly as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence - join us

The Role:

Ready to build the platform that powers the world's most comprehensive testing cloud? Sauce Labs is seeking talented developers to join us in creating our next-generation virtual compute platform. This isn't just a component; it's the foundation that supports thousands of virtual environments across a multi-cloud architecture.

Your work will directly enable testing on everything from standard desktop browsers (Windows, macOS, Linux) to iOS simulators and Android emulators, defining the performance and reliability of the entire Sauce Labs experience

Responsibilities:

• Implement features and improvements to our virtual compute platform, including both compute orchestration services and infrastructure.
• Actively collaborate with Product and Engineering stakeholders to maintain high expectations for quality in our iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to our platform performance, architecture and engineering quality.
• Propose and implement solutions to improve our team efficiency.
• Make choices for the adoption of new technologies based on your extensive experience.
• Independently own deliverables from ideation to production. Actively collaborate with the team on larger initiatives.
• Participate in our team process of software delivery, which includes refinement of work items, discussion about priorities, and outcomes the team defines for the coming time period.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation to help troubleshoot urgent customer facing problems and other engineering issues.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in backend software development and/or cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management, e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Familiarity with one or more major cloud providers, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Practical knowledge of DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with virtualization technologies, e.g. QEMU, KVM, Libvirt, VirtualBox, VMWare, Apple Hypervisor Framework, Apple Virtualization Framework.
• Familiarity with Linux or MacOS system administration.
• Experience iterating on CI/CD processes and pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of network communications and security.
• Experience using observability tooling for streamlined troubleshooting, planning, and decision making.

This position is required to work in the office 5 days a week.

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Security responsibilities at Sauce
At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You'll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org wide level and exercise a 'security first' approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.