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Software Development Engineer in Test

Meta· Engineering
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Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA)$173k - $237kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Meta is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test to drive quality engineering strategy across large-scale software systems and products, defining and leading test engineering vision, frameworks, tooling, and methodologies to raise the quality bar across multiple product areas and engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term quality engineering strategy and test architecture for large-scale, distributed software systems across multiple product areas
  • Design and build scalable test automation frameworks, infrastructure, and tooling that can be adopted organization-wide to improve reliability and coverage
  • Lead cross-functional quality initiatives by partnering with product engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to identify systemic quality gaps and drive resolution
  • Establish standards and best practices for test design, including unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and chaos/fault-injection testing methodologies
  • Develop and own quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting systems that provide actionable signal on product health, test coverage, and release readiness
  • Evaluate and improve CI/CD pipeline quality gates, staged rollout validation processes, and feature flagging strategies to reduce production incidents
  • Identify and resolve systemic reliability, scalability, and performance issues through root cause analysis and proactive test coverage improvements
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across quality and product engineering teams, elevating overall test engineering craft
  • Influence engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions by advocating for testability, observability, and quality as first-class engineering requirements
  • Drive adoption of quality engineering practices across the organization through documentation, tooling, and cross-team enablement programs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of experience in software development engineering in test, quality engineering, or software engineering with a focus on test infrastructure and automation
  • Experience designing and implementing large-scale test automation frameworks and CI/CD quality pipelines for distributed systems
  • Experience defining quality strategy and driving adoption of testing methodologies across multiple engineering teams or product areas
  • Experience with performance testing, reliability engineering, or fault-injection testing for high-scale production systems
  • Experience communicating technical quality strategy and engineering decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through written proposals and cross-functional alignment

Benefits

  • Benefits information available in posting.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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