Meta

Software Development Engineer in Test

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2 months ago
Menlo Park, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$146k - $203k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement automated test frameworks, test harnesses, and validation infrastructure for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Define end-to-end unit, integration, system, regression, performance, and reliability testing strategies.
  • Embed testability requirements into software design and development with product and infrastructure engineering teams.
  • Develop tooling and pipelines to improve test coverage, execution speed, and signal quality.
  • Analyze flaky tests, test failures, and production incidents to identify systemic quality gaps and drive resolution.
  • Establish testing best practices, coding standards, quality engineering patterns, quality gates, and release criteria.
  • Lead technical design reviews for test infrastructure and advise peers on architecture and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Build observability and reporting systems for test health, coverage, and reliability metrics.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software development engineering in test, test automation, or quality engineering roles.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience designing automated test frameworks and infrastructure for large-scale or distributed software systems.
  • Experience with performance, load, or reliability testing methodologies and tooling.
  • Experience debugging test failures and production defects through systematic root cause analysis.
  • Experience influencing engineering decisions through technical proposals and cross-functional alignment.
  • Preferred: experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, adversarial testing, staged rollout quality gates, or CI/CD test integration.
  • Preferred: proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Hack for test framework development.
  • Preferred: experience testing highly concurrent, low-latency, or complex distributed systems.
  • Preferred: familiarity with AI workflow tools, prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration, and responsible AI practices.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $146,000/year to $203,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

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About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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