Hybrid Principal Engineer, Data Platform – QA

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About the role

  • Principal QA Engineer leading quality strategy for F5's cloud data platform. Key responsibilities include testing and automating data processes, mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Design QA strategies for data streaming, storage, and observability services
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, SRE, and Platform teams to embed quality and reliability throughout the SDLC
  • Build automation framework for data validation, regression, and integration testing
  • Extend automation to handle real-time data streams, schema evolution, workflows, and data consistency checks
  • Design and execute tests for streaming platforms, ETL pipelines, and data storage systems
  • Develop tools to validate ingestion, transformation, and query accuracy
  • Automate validation of logs, metrics, and traces for correctness & completeness
  • Validate telemetry and SaaS usage pipelines
  • Simulate failure and recovery scenarios for distributed systems
  • Establish performance and load testing frameworks
  • Mentor junior QA engineers and promote best practices in test automation and quality assurance

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with at least 7 years focused on automation
  • Strong background testing data-intensive or observability systems
  • Proficiency coding/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Java for automation and tooling
  • Experience with automation frameworks
  • Expertise in performance testing tools and benchmarking distributed systems
  • Expertise in streaming data validation, schema, and event-driven architectures
  • Familiar with cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and DevOps practices
  • Excellent analytical, debugging, and communication skills
  • Experience leading QA strategy in SaaS, observability, or analytics platforms

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Principal Engineer, Data Platform – QA

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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