Software Engineer, Test – SDET

BRINC Drones

Software Engineer, Test (SDET) developing automated test frameworks for cloud-based public safety solutions. Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure product reliability and quality standards.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $165,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDynamoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites that provide API, integration, and end-to-end coverage across the LiveOps web platform and backend services.
Own end-to-end and regression testing for core LiveOps features, including live video streaming, teleoperation, fleet management, data management, and third-party integrations.
Validate IAM and security controls across the platform, including Amazon Cognito, multi-tenant authentication and authorization, and Lambda authorizers, to support SOC 2 compliance and safeguard sensitive public safety data.
Validate machine learning and computer vision model outputs from BRINC's autonomy stack, including object detection, segmentation, and classification models, testing output correctness, confidence thresholds, and regression behavior across model versions.
Validate health monitoring and observability, exercising alerting pipelines, DynamoDB Streams, and CloudWatch alarm behavior to ensure failures are detected and surfaced in production.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to deliver fast, reliable quality feedback and gate releases into production.
Build and maintain test infrastructure, environments, and test data to enable repeatable, high-quality testing.
Design and execute performance, load, and reliability testing for real-time, low-latency services such as live video streaming and teleoperation.
Partner with backend, frontend, cloud, and device software engineers to define test strategy and acceptance criteria, shifting quality earlier in the development cycle.
Triage failures, perform root-cause analysis, track defects, and produce clear quality metrics and release-readiness reports, while championing testing and quality best practices across the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5-12 years of experience in software test engineering, SDET, or quality engineering, building automated testing for web and cloud platforms
Strong programming skills in TypeScript and Python, with the ability to write and maintain production-quality test code
Hands-on experience building web and API test automation with Playwright, including end-to-end suites built from the ground up and reporting frameworks that clearly surface results
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, working comfortably in Linux and bash environments
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and testing distributed, service-based architectures
Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering teams and influence quality practices
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families
401K plan
Maternity and paternity leave
Flexible Time Off (Exempt) / Paid time off (Non-Exempt)
Flexible work environment
Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound)
Free parking (Seattle office)
Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office)

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Hard Skills & Tools

automated test frameworksAPI testingintegration testingend-to-end testingTypeScriptPythonPlaywrightCI/CD pipelinesperformance testingload testing

Soft Skills

communication skillsdocumentation skillscollaborationinfluence quality practicesroot-cause analysisquality metrics productionchampioning testing best practices

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in engineeringBachelor's degree in computer science