At Sonos, we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
As an SDET, you will represent the Software Quality Engineering discipline in the Software Engineering group. You will have a direct impact on the business, advancing the platform for both internal and external customers. You’ll be exposed to a large variety of the foundational pieces of the Sonos system - music playback, device-to-device interaction, partner services, and much more. In addition, you’ll be tasked with creating a development pipeline with quality at its core. You will be expected to understand the features being built and automate testing of those features. If you love music, solving challenging problems, and delivering high-quality products, we want to talk with you!
What You’ll Do
- Develop automated tests for new software features, especially around partners and control API.
- Develop and improve the team's automated CI/CD release pipeline, with quality as its foundation.
- Monitor, debug, and fix breakages within our automated pipeline.
- Add and democratize new forms of data and metrics to allow the team to make decisions on where to focus and improve our tests.
- Be an active participant and engaged part of your Scrum team – you are the voice of both quality and the customer during the development process.
- Review requirements, behavior specifications, and design documents to begin test development early and uncover issues prior to implementation.
- Investigate log, track, and triage bugs to determine root cause and establish prioritization.
- Advocate Software Quality within Sonos.
What You’ll Need
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply for roles if they don’t meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 0-2 years of experience in automation, preferably with embedded systems.
- Demonstrated proficiency writing code for automation with one or more of the following: Python, Javascript, C/C++.
- Experience with version control such as Git, Perforce, etc.
- Knowledge on data instrumentation and telemetry for Software Quality.
- Defining and implementing software test automation.
- This role requires commuting distance to one of our main engineering offices in Seattle, Boston, or San Francisco. Qualified candidates must be able to be in our office at least once a week.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with REST and/or Websocket based APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD build and release pipelines: Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, etc.
- Experience with the following technologies:
- Embedded, Restful API and Cloud automation testing tools in a B2B model.
- OpenAPI Specifications, Data Telemetry and Code Instrumentation.
- Test Automation Frameworks in Python.
- JIRA.
- Kubernetes and Docker containerization.
- Linux as a development platform.
- Tableau, Kibana, DataDog and other system reliability and quality tracking tools.
At Sonos, we consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, which may lead individual compensation to vary depending on job-related qualifications, skills, and experience. All full-time employees are eligible for merit increases, discretionary bonuses, and equity. Our job postings may span more than one career level, and the base pay range may be modified in the future based on changing market conditions. The starting base pay for this role for all US candidates is between: $88,000 and $97,700.
Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well-being of our employees. Regular full-time employees in the US are eligible for benefits on day one, including:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
- A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting.
- An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure-based vacation accruals required.
- 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually.
- Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year.
- 12 weeks of paid Bonding Leave following the birth or adoption of a new child, plus up to an additional 12 weeks of Medical Leave for birthing parents under our Short Term Disability policy.
- Company-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance.
- Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance.
- Mental health benefits to support your holistic well-being.
- A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!
For a holistic overview of our benefits, please visit sonosbenefits.com.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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