About the Position

Senior Software Engineer (Python/Go, Infrastructure)

Location: Gurgaon, India

Work Location Type: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote)

About Us

Sauce Labs is the world’s largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world’s top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality. Learn more at Sauce Labs.

The Role

As a Software Engineer in the Platform team, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving core architecture for applications developed in the company. Feature teams implement new ideas and improve existing ones based on the vision of the Product Team and feedback from our customers. Web Platform has high visibility and importance within the company as it’s job is to provide common foundations for those teams to build on, merge and deployment strategy, monitoring, and give technological guidance to developers throughout the company.

Responsibilities

Design, build and operate backend services for authentication, authorization, and account management.
Model multi-tenant account structures - organizations, teams, membership, and roles - and keep the model correct as the product grows.
Design and evolve public and internal APIs, including versioning and backward compatibility.
Integrate enterprise identity: single sign-on over SAML and OIDC, and provisioning over SCIM.
Build event-driven integrations over Kafka, including schema design and compatibility.
Keep services available and fast on the request path, across several regions.
Own what you build in production: metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call for your own services.

Requirements

Languages and Frameworks

Python 3.12+ - Expert
Go 1.23+ - Intermediate
FastAPI - Advanced
Django and Django REST Framework - Advanced

Datastores

MongoDB - Intermediate - document modelling, indexing, schema migrations, and the trade-offs of denormalization
MySQL - Intermediate - schema migrations, transactions, reasoning about query cost
Redis - basics
LDAP / directory services - basics

Messaging and API Contracts

Kafka - basics - consumer groups, partitioning and ordering, idempotent consumption, retries, and dead-letter handling
REST and OpenAPI - Intermediate

Identity and Access

Multi-tenancy modelling - Advanced - organizations, teams, membership, and roles; the difference between a hierarchy and a relation, and the consequences of each
Token-based authentication, JWT - Advanced - issuing, validating, claims design, expiry, and revocation
OIDC - Advanced
SAML - Advanced
Session management - Advanced - where a session lives, how it is inspected and revoked
Role-based and attribute-based access control - Advanced
SCIM provisioning - Familiarity

Infrastructure and Delivery

Docker - Intermediate
Kubernetes - Advanced - deploying, inspecting, and debugging a service
Helm - Intermediate
CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI or equivalent) - Intermediate

Observability

OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing - Advanced
Prometheus and PromQL - Advanced - diagnosing from metrics, not only reading dashboards
Grafana - Advanced
Log querying at scale - Advanced

We Offer

Competitive salary
Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Sauce Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity/expression/status, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Senior Software Engineer (Python/Go, Infrastructure)

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