Senior / Staff Software Engineer (QA / Release / Deploy)

Who We Are:

Materialize is a real-time data platform built on a breakthrough in incremental computation, enabling up-to-date, trustworthy views into any aspect of your business using just SQL. Build and adapt live, composable data products in minutes—with the team you already have. Use Materialize to power data-intensive UIs, deliver fresh context to AI/ML pipelines, and create dynamic digital twins of manufacturing processes for real-time optimization. Materialize is trusted by General Mills, Ryder, and Fubo.tv to solve their most pressing real-time data challenges.

Our team spans the US (with a NYC headquarters), Canada, and EMEA.

I nvestors:

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

About the Role

At Materialize, QA is a big deal. Quality is a foundational part of our engineering process that ensures we are meeting all of our ambitious requirements of correctness, reliability, performance, and scale, without sacrificing on velocity or developer productivity. Here, QA operates as a platform that levels up the whole organization–QA crafts the tools and workflows that, put in the hands of our product teams, allows every engineer to autonomously and confidently build and deploy trusted code every day.

With this role we are looking to double the size of our QA team (by adding you!), which, to start, will have particular focus on improving our release process and expanding our performance & scalability infrastructure. The role will be based out of New York City at our headquarters near Astor Place, and is in-office 3-5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure and flow of our product’s weekly release process. Automate away all the toil. Develop a lightweight workflow that allows our Database and Cloud teams to run silky smooth deployments week over week.


• Establish and maintain the tooling to measure performance, scalability, and other non-functional characteristics of the database. Empower product teams to autonomously measure and act on these insights within their own planning & development lifecycle.


• Build the infrastructure needed to accurately simulate realistic production workloads. Put it in the hands of our product teams so they can easily verify and benchmark their work against custom workloads of all shapes and sizes.


• Analyze the full lifecycle of defects across our development process. Identify when and where we detect bugs and regressions, and strengthen feedback loops to shift detection left.


• Own and improve the infrastructure that powers daily development and developer productivity, from our Bazel builds, to Buildkite CI, to local testing frameworks. (If you’re curious to read more about some of the work in this space, take a look at our recent post on Speeding up CI )

About You

• 4+ years of experience with software engineering focused on automation, infrastructure, and quality.


• Able and excited to work from our NYC headquarters 3-5 days a week (we can offer relocation assistance if you are not currently in NYC).


• Strong programming fundamentals. Our QA code is primarily in Python and Rust–if either of these are unfamiliar to you, you are excited to learn them.


• Deep familiarity with CI/CD, build systems, and how to keep them performant and reliable.


• Well-versed in defining and quantifying functional and non-functional requirements of complex systems.


• Strong written and verbal communication.


• Able to work cross-functionally and drive decisions across many stakeholders.


• Motivated to develop tools and workflows that make the development process of other engineers better.


• Strong CS fundamentals or equivalent experience; exposure to distributed systems and databases is a strong plus.

SALARY RANGE: $153,000-$261,050 + Equity

The salary range provided in this job description should not be considered a guarantee or commitment. The actual compensation offered may vary based on individual qualifications objectively assessed during the application and interview process, including but not limited to the candidate’s:

• Qualifications and relevant work experience


• Educational background and credentials


• Relevant skills and certifications


• Geographic location


• Market demands

Materialize reserves the right to adjust the salary range based on the candidate's specific circumstances and the overall compensation package.

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.