Sr Software Development Manager Jobs in California

• Implement test strategy with feature teams on a major project or area of Rally, and agree up front on what must be true for high-impact changes and who proves it
• Test Rally against defined system properties and invariants, especially those pertaining to scalability, resiliency, and performance at customer scale
• Design test infrastructure and fixtures that serve both test and development, weigh their tradeoffs with peers, and see them through implementation to adoption
• Build tests that return a clear verdict on well-defined system behaviors
• Advise feature developers as they own the development-loop tests for their own changes
• Test that Rally’s failures are diagnosable, so customers and support can tell what broke and why
• Review past production incidents with Support Engineering to find gaps in how we test
• Mentor other SDETs, and improve the practices and tools the team uses

• First 90 days. You’re shaping the test strategy for a major project, know the test infrastructure well enough to support and refine its design, and feature teams coordinate with you to ensure releases ship with confidence.
• First year. You drive test strategy for a major area of Rally and have defined and tested its system properties. Feature developers use fixtures you designed, and other SDETs come to you for guidance.

• A track record of driving test strategy for microservice-based systems, cloud-hosted systems, or single-page web applications with minimal direction
• Experience designing test infrastructure and frameworks, and explaining their tradeoffs to peers
• Experience testing how systems behave under load and failure, beyond functional correctness
• Experience applying AI agents to test work, or driving test on an AI-forward engineering team, and a clear sense of when agent-written tests check the implementation instead of the intent
• Strong ability to read and understand Python, Javascript, or another programming language commonly used in test
• Experience applying software or system design principles in the test domain
• Curiosity about how and why systems fail, and the discipline to learn new systems and technologies in depth
• The ability to explain deeply technical topics to non-technical audiences, and to adjust how you communicate for customers, management, or peers

• Experience with load, performance, or fault-injection testing tools
• Experience running automated tests in CI pipelines
• Experience with pytest or similar test frameworks
• Experience with Robot Framework
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• Familiarity with professional media formats and tools, such as codecs, container formats, media encoders, and metadata management

• We’re small and distributed. Most of our collaboration happens over Slack and Zoom, across time zones. You’ll own what you build, and you’ll work closely with people outside your immediate team.
• Engineers stay close to customers. You’ll hear directly from the people using what you build. When something goes wrong in production, the team that owns the code helps fix it.
• We dig for root causes. When something breaks, we find out why instead of patching the symptom and moving on.
• We ship, then refine. We work in short sprints and improve things over time instead of waiting for a perfect first version.

• This is a remote role, open to candidates across the United States
• Occasional travel may be required, but is not core to this role
• Interview process: introductory call, AI proficiency interview, team technical interview, interview project, interview project presentation, and founders interview

You Should Be Interested in SDVI Because:

• You are looking for your next big challenge
• You are looking for a company that welcomes your talent virtually
• You want teammates you can learn from, and who will learn from you
• You want to be part of a team that respects individuals and their work
• You consider the big picture and your contribution to it

SDVI offers a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salary, medical, vision, dental, 401(k) match, and stock options in a stimulating and rewarding distributed work environment.

SDVI is committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity in our workforce. We maintain a courteous work environment that recognizes the dignity and worth of each employee. SDVI respects the individual needs of employees and is an equal-opportunity employer.