Aviatrix
Staff Engineer SDET
Santa Clara, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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$1,142 more — $190,445 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $190,445 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We are searching for a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join the Aviatrix Engineering Productivity (EngProd) Integration Playground team.
- This is a high-impact, infrastructure-forward role at the intersection of platform engineering and test infrastructure.
- Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and interview processes
Responsibilities
- Develop benchmark test suites for operations known to cause problems at scale, ensuring regressions are detected early in the release cycle
- Design and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure for scale and platform playground environments, ensuring reliability and reproducibility across releases
- Partner with cross-functional teams - including Networking, Platform, Security, and ERT - to understand domain requirements and translate them into playground infrastructure and test designs
- serve as a technical resource and set standards for test design, infrastructure quality, and best practices
- Mentor engineers on the team; serve as a technical resource and set standards for test design, infrastructure quality, and best practices
- Experience building large-scale simulation or emulation environments (e.g., fake/simulated gateway fleets, network topology emulation)
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software development or test engineering, with strong emphasis on infrastructure, scale testing, or platform engineering
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
- Proficiency with Terraform for building and maintaining regression and scale test infrastructure
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with benchmark testing methodology - designing repeatable benchmarks, establishing baselines, and detecting regressions in processing time or memory usage
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or providing technical leadership on infrastructure projects
Skills
- Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric - the architecture the Containment Era requires.
- Universal propagation.
- Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint.
- Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises.
- For more information, visit aviatrix.ai.
- Strong coding skills in Python and/or Golang
- Hands-on experience designing and managing test environments at scale using cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code
- Prior work on hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure environments
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $189,303-$222,710 + benefits + 401(k) match + equity and is bonus eligible.
Benefits
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog for environment health and test result visualization
- Your total compensation package will be based on job-related knowledge, education, certifications and location, per our aligned ranges.
Company info
- The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane.
- If you're seeking an opportunity where you can be excited to start work every morning with enthusiastic people, make a real difference and be part of something amazing then let's talk.
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