Senior Backend Engineer Cloud Infrastructure @ Sauce Labs Inc.
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About Sauce Labs Inc.
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 platform uses AI-powered analytics for continuous quality through the SDLC, ensuring apps perform as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer Cloud Infrastructure, you will build the platform powering a comprehensive testing cloud. You will design and implement our virtual compute platform that supports thousands of virtual environments across a multi-cloud architecture, enabling testing on desktop browsers and mobile simulators/emulators.
Responsibilities
- Implement features and improvements to virtual compute and orchestration services.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to maintain quality standards.
- Advocate for performance, architectural, and quality improvements.
- Propose and implement solutions to improve team efficiency.
- Adopt new technologies based on deep experience.
- Own deliverables from ideation to production.
- Participate in team agile processes and on-call rotations for urgent issues.
Requirements
- 8+ years in backend development and/or cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
- Familiar with major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiar with Docker, Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Practical knowledge of DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
Nice to Have
- Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., QEMU, KVM, VMWare).
- Familiarity with Linux or MacOS administration.
- Experience with CI/CD processes and pipelines.
- Knowledge of network communications and security.
- Proficiency with observability tooling for troubleshooting and planning.
Work Arrangement & Security
This is a hybrid role requiring office presence in Gurgaon five days a week. Employees must comply with security protocols and uphold a 'security first' mindset.
Key skills/competency
- Backend Development
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- SRE
- Virtualization
- CI/CD
- Security
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