We're looking for a Sr. Developer - Quality Engineering (focused on Infrastructure and Tools) who is passionate about quality-driven development and excited to help shape the future of digital journalism and media delivery. In this role, you will build and maintain custom tools and solutions to support product and engineering teams across the company by improving quality, reducing pain points, and ensuring our platforms deliver fast, reliable, and trustworthy content to millions of users.
While this role is on our Quality Engineering team, this is very much a development-focused role. You'll be a key player in building services and pipelines using cloud resources, adding observability for other teams (using dashboards, alerting, and more), and scaling our tools as we increase our quality footprint to cover more aspects of our business.
Key ResponsibilitiesPropose, build, and maintain QE tools that are modular and can be used across many projects.
Collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering teams to assess quality strategies and find solutions to embed quality into every stage of the development lifecycle.
Integrate automated tools and tests into CI/CD pipelines to support rapid deployment cycles and minimize production defects.
Ensure test coverage for critical workflows, including content ingestion, publishing, personalization, and user engagement features.
Champion testability and observability, especially in high-traffic, high-availability environments.Mentor teams on automation best practices, helping shift testing left and improve developer ownership of quality.
Analyze test results and production metrics to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
3+ years of development experienceProficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with exposure to other programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Ruby)
Experience working with containers and building configuration files (e.g. Docker)Experience deploying and maintaining serverless projects (using tools like Google Cloud Run/Functions, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, etc)Experience working with CI tools and building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
Experience ingesting, storing, organizing, displaying, and analyzing data (with tools like Google Cloud BigQuery, Data Studio, SQL, and Grafana)
Experience architecting or designing multi-step software systems or pipelines (especially using Cloud tools) is a plus
Exposure to and experience with test automation tools is a plus (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit).
Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
What You'll BringA deep appreciation for the role of quality in digital products and services
A passion for problem-solving, finding approaches and tailoring solutions to meet of many stakeholders.
A strategic approach to automation, balancing speed, coverage, cost, and maintainability.A collaborative spirit that thrives in cross-functional environments.
A data-driven mindset, using metrics to guide decisions and improvements.
Why Join Us?Help shape the future of how news and media are delivered to global audiences.
Work with cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
Collaborate with passionate team members committed to innovation.
Enjoy a culture that values creativity, ownership, and continuous learning.
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The annualized base salary for this role will range between $105,000 and $125,000. Base compensation is reflective of many factors, including, but not limited to, the market in which one lives/works, individual education level, skills, certifications and experience. Note: variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable.
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