Principal Quality Development Engineer

Overview

The InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is the foundation for industry-leading applications with demanding scalability, resilience, and high availability requirements. Quality Development helps deliver on that promise by subjecting the product to intense scrutiny and extreme workloads.

The Systems group is looking for a self-motivated software engineer in test (SEIT) / software development engineer in test (SDET) to complement a talented and collaborative team with your experience, skills, and creativity. As a Principal Quality Development Engineer, you'll act as the product’s first customer in a customer-first company. You’ll provide early feedback on new features and advocate for the best user experience, from design through implementation to deployment.

Responsibilities

You’ll acquire expertise on features and the code that implements them in close partnership with Development. You will craft functional, integration, and stress tests, automating them whenever possible. You will also assist Support in the reproduction and diagnosis of customer-reported problems.

Key features under test include journaling for crash resiliency, mirroring for shared-nothing high-availability clustering, and Enterprise Cache Protocol for distributed caching, as well as ObjectScript and embedded Python.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in QA or a related engineering field
• Proficient with systems programming, especially C and C++
• Able to read code critically, with an emphasis on bugs, security, and performance
• Strong grasp of operating system concepts and TCP / IP networking
• Experience using debuggers such as GDB, LLDB, and dbx
• Comfortable with Windows, Mac, and Unix, especially AIX and Linux

Desirable

Education

BS / MS in Computer Science or equivalent.

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