Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering
Core
Build and lead a company-wide TestOps platform to automate testing, manage test environments/data, and enable safe continuous delivery across infrastructure and applications.
Role type
Sr. Director, TestOps Platform & Quality Engineering
Builds
Federated testing platform, self-service orchestration, production-like staging environments, AI-assisted testing capabilities, and resilience validation systems.
Domain
Cloud-native distributed systems, continuous delivery, reliability engineering, AI/ML for testing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
TestOps strategy, Kubernetes, cloud-native testing, service mesh, fault injection, chaos engineering, AI-assisted test generation, load testing, DR validation, CI/CD architecture, distributed systems, test automation, cross-organizational adoption
Preferred skills
Hyperscaler experience, AIOps architecture, release certification programs, executive reliability metrics
Technologies
Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD, observability, production telemetry
Responsibilities
Define TestOps strategy and roadmap, build federated testing platform, create reusable test harnesses and simulators, integrate with CI/CD and observability, lead engineering teams and organization design, architect test orchestration and quality signals, drive cross-organizational adoption of standards
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership