The Role

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Test Platform

Engineering WA - Seattle
CA - San Francisco

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The Role: Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to elegantly solve problems. You will directly impact, influence and lead the direction and architecture of our AI-powered software testing experience, and elevate product reliability through testing infrastructure innovations and practices. You will lead, define, and tackle complex problems from architecture to implementation and adoption with a strong sense of ownership and delivery.

What You'll Do:

• Technical leadership - Provide thought leadership for the technical strategy, design, implementation, delivery and operations for AI-powered agentic testing (autonomous test generation, execution, failure remediation) and foundational test infrastructure (environment, data generation, multi-tenancy).
• Innovate - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in testing enablement infrastructure, experience and tooling.
• Exemplary Practitioner - Be a subject matter expert in the testing domain, including outcome KPIs and metrics, and operational excellence.
• Mentor - Collaborate with engineers to provide mentorship and domain expertise to enhance the team's technical capabilities.
• Continuous Improvement - Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.
• Collaborate - Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross-organizational teams.
• Influence - Influence and scale the adoption of platforms, tools and best practices across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

What You'll Need:

• Experience - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years software development experience.
• Experience developing in a cloud environment (eg, AWS), using containers (eg, Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies, service meshes (eg, Istio, Envoy), CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Expertise - Deep knowledge of testing practices for micro-services (eg, multi-tenancy, ephemeral test environments, test user and data generation techniques). Deep awareness of testing tools (eg, Locust, Artillery), frameworks (eg, Kotest, Mockito) and techniques (eg, fuzz, property).
• 2+ years of experience using or developing AI tools (eg, Claude Code, Prompts, Cursor), AI infrastructure (eg, MCP, RAGs, Vector DBs), agent frameworks (eg, Agent SDK, Langchain, Langfuse).
• Design - Strong understanding of software design principles and distributed systems architecture.
• Problem solving - Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures).
• Coding Skills - Proven coding skills (eg, Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large-scale systems with infrastructure automation (eg, Terraform).
• Project Ownership - Ability to own, manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch. Experience with Agile development processes.
• Strong Interpersonal skills - Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical members in cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring and logging (eg, Datadog, Elastic, Coralogix).
• Experience with container orchestration (eg, Docker, Kubernetes) and networking.

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is $172,800.00 - $297,000.00. Final base pay offer will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and location. Pay frequency: Annual.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page.

This role is also eligible for a bonus, long-term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.

Pay range: $172,800.00 - $297,000.00 Payment frequency: Annual

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The Company and Legal Notices

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