Meta
Software Development Engineer in Test
$173K–$237K
Menlo Park, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 8+ years in software development engineering in test, quality engineering, or software engineering focused on test infrastructure and automation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads organization-wide quality engineering strategy and builds test frameworks, infrastructure, and practices for large-scale distributed software systems.
What you'll do
- Define quality strategy, test architecture, and testing standards across product areas.
- Build scalable test automation frameworks and tooling; improve CI/CD quality gates, rollout validation, and production reliability.
- Lead cross-functional quality initiatives, metrics, and engineering enablement; mentor engineers and influence roadmaps.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing large-scale test automation frameworks and CI/CD quality pipelines for distributed systems.
- Experience defining quality strategy across multiple teams or product areas, and with performance, reliability, or fault-injection testing.
- Experience with observability and telemetry, plus communicating quality strategy to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with static analysis, fuzzing, or model-based testing.
- Experience building quality tooling across mobile, web, and backend systems; organizational influence through tooling, standards, or enablement.
Pay
$173,000/year to $237,000/year (base salary)
Tools
CI/CD, observability platforms, static analysis, fuzzing, model-based testing, mobile, web, backend
AI focus
Apply responsible, ethical AI practices; continue developing AI skills such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration; integrate AI tools to improve workflows and deliver measurable efficiency or quality gains.
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