Senior Test Tooling Engineer
Senior Test Tooling Engineer responsible for evolving CI/CD pipelines, owning release automation, building stress testing and benchmarking infrastructure (tsbench), and ensuring high-quality releases for TimescaleDB and related PostgreSQL products. Requires senior release/QA experience, strong Python, GitHub Actions expertise, and production PostgreSQL knowledge.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Drive and evolve CI/CD infrastructure for TimescaleDB, Toolkit, Data Tiering, and Tiger Lake, utilizing GitHub Actions.
- Own the end-to-end release process, focusing on automation so that releases become seamless and effortless for the team.
- Lead the packaging process and collaborate with the platform team to ensure a smooth, efficient workflow.
- Design and implement stress testing infrastructure from the ground up. Execute stress tests, analyze results, and feed regression signals back to engineering partners.
- Build and maintain comprehensive testing infrastructure to validate TimescaleDB's performance and compatibility in cloud environments.
- Take ownership of benchmarking frameworks (including tsbench), elevating their capabilities with advanced features (e.g., explain plans), and ensuring reliable, sophisticated measurement.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Release Engineer, QA Lead, or similar role with end-to-end release process ownership.
- Deep expertise in modern CI/CD practices and tools, especially GitHub Actions.
- Strong Python skills for automation, tooling, and infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL in production environments.
Nice-to-Haves
- Prior experience with TimescaleDB.
- Basic knowledge of Kubernetes.
Skills
GitHub Actions, Python, Postgres, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Go
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