Principal Software Development Engineer

Our team’s mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next-generation applications. We take ownership of the design and development of core compute interfaces, virtualization management, APIs, and low-level platform services.

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As a Principal Software Development Engineer in Test, you will own VM/fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor behavior validation across the IaaS platform.

As a Principal Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and owning test strategy for hypervisor behavior, VM performance, and fleet-level quality gates; mentoring SDETs on statistical rigor and systems-level testing.
• Designing reproducible test environments that emulate bare-metal VM conditions using containers, validating data integrity, without requiring physical hardware.
• Developing automated performance benchmarks with statistical baselines, change-point detection, and regression gating for CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborating with product and SRE to define SLO measurement and validate deployment safety and rollback strategies.
• Writing test harnesses and performance analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl.

• Have 12 years in testing, including performance testing, hypervisor platforms, and systems engineering or its equivalent
• Possess experience in KVM/QEMU/libvirt internals, VM-exits, and NUMA/cache effects on performance.
• Have experience in debug across architectures (x86, ARM) on bare metal and emulated environments, isolating failure root causes.
• Have good Linux fundamentals: scheduler, memory management, I/O subsystems, storage architectures, and block devices.
• Demonstrate statistical thinking: experimental design, baseline analysis, variance control, and stakeholder communication.
• Have proficiency in Linux perf, VTune, eBPF, Bash, Jenkins, and SaltStack.

Be an Early Applicant In-Office or Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 169K-305K Annually Expert/Leader In-Office or Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 169K-305K Annually Expert/Leader Owns VM and fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor validation for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like test environments, develops automated performance benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses and analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in virtualization, Linux systems, performance engineering, statistical analysis, and cross-architecture debugging. The summary above was generated by AI

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