Senior System Test Engineer
Core
Drive correctness, reliability, and performance of distributed database systems (Lance/LanceDB) under production conditions by building test frameworks, workloads, and fault-injection scenarios.
Role type
Senior System Test Engineer (Distributed Databases)
Builds
Automated test frameworks, realistic workloads, and reproducible test environments for distributed data systems.
Domain
Distributed databases, systems engineering, and test infrastructure.
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
System test strategy, distributed database internals, fault injection, performance testing, Python, Rust/C++/Java/Go, Linux, CI/CD, observability, AI tooling.
Preferred skills
Database storage engines, vector search, property-based testing, fuzzing, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code.
Responsibilities
Define system-level testing strategy, build automated test frameworks and workloads, validate data integrity and consistency, design load/stress/soak tests, test upgrades and compatibility, investigate failures using logs/metrics/traces, develop reproducible test environments for CI.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
